Missing Network Icon in Sidebar

one of my co-workers accidently deleted the network icon from her sidebar, I'm trying to figue out how to get it back, she is running Panther any help would be appreciated

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Can anyone help my buddy Tom - who is running a G4 iBook with OS X Panther? He is unable to get onto his wireless network and here is the problem in his own words:
"Had a moment to muck about in the iBook drive, following data crumbs from the all-pervasive Network software. Apparently, all that spinning of the drive over regions containing bits and bytes of the application managed to cobble together enough of Network to launch an e-mail, which I immediately determined had to go to you. This is strictly a spit-and-string enterprise, similar to a baling wire and soup can exhaust system fix, and likely the only e-mail I'll get off until I complete an entire system restore. Think of it as a faulty telephone connection - you can hear me, but I can't hear you. So, don't bother to respond, as your e-mail will probably languish in my Inbox for the time it takes me to resurrect OS X.
What brought me to this point is my reasoning Network isn't a stand-alone application like a word processor, but rather a "network" (clever, eh?) piece of software with files strewn through other software so they can access various aspects of it. For example, World Book Encyclopedia accomplishes a software update without launching Safari; connecting to its mother ship via but another piece of Network that happens to reside within the program. I guess this approach is what put the "i" in iBook, and it seems to work pretty well...until moments like this. Perhaps Steve Jobs outsourced to Hansel and Gretel to create a new marketing twist.
Anyway, I've talked this all up with a number of people, and the universal response seems to be; "Huh? I've never heard such a thing.". I even managed to mightily confuse Dave and he's got an awful lot of Mac expertise. But the real kicker, when explaining how I reasoned it all out, is when I mention the key to my understanding was when I noticed the missing Network icon. That's when their eyes glaze over and it's apparent they can't quite wrap their brain around the idea. I've deduced how to cajole the Finder to reveal this Archimedean moment, and included a pair of attachments so you, too, can share in my AHA!! revelation. Running this all past Dave had him agreeing I seem to have a handle on it, but the sheer complexity of all those .exec files squirreled here, there, and everywhere still had him scratching his head.
Interestingly, I have to coerce the Finder to display the icon example; you can't simply click it into existence. I do it by plugging in a travel drive, opening same, then ejecting it. The Finder then defaults to what you see (the word Network with no icon).
Speaking of attachments, I was so tempted to wade through all 70 (70!!) e-mails in my inbox, but was fearful my MacGyvered patch would fail before getting this off to you.
Time to fade back into the black hole from whence I came. When I close Safari it'll relinquish its tenuous grasp on the Network .exec file it's hacked to."
Any ideas on what's wrong and how it can be fixed? I'll see that they get passed on to Tom.
G4 Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.10) iMac

Before the mid-1980s, networking might have been implemented with a lot of goofy little routines (.exec's if you must) calling one another. About that time the CCITT (an international telecommunications standards committee made up of Academic and Industrial representatives) did a lot of work abstracting and then standardizing the functions that various parts of a network perform.
The CCITT refined the notion of a Layered Network Architecture and specified the types of activities performed in each layer. Shortly thereafter Apple implemented Open Transport and delivered it into the marketplace in System 7.5.3.
Apple networking has been very well-behaved and under control since then. It does not tend to "get lost" or "lose track of things". It really is very good. With only a few limitations, you can connect Macs running 7.5.3 through 10.3.9 and have File Sharing work without regard to what versions are talking to each other.

Network Icon in Sidebar

It would appear that Network has been removed from the Finder sidebar icon options in Leopard. At least, I can't find it in Finder>Preferences>Sidebar (it's there in Tiger). Any possible way of placing a Network icon in the Leopard Finder sidebar? I tried dragging the Network icon from the Devices>Computer pane and it won't drag.

It was replaced with the 3 items under SHARED:
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My Network icon on SideBar is Gone!!

Hi guys!
I know it sounds stupid, but i dragged Network out of the sidebar, and know i cant get it back in. Since then, when at root, i see the Network icon, i double click and no network window opens. In Finder, i go to the Go menu, choose Network and a window opens but no network items can be seen!! So i can´t reach anything on my network from my main user account!
I created a new one, and no problems at all. Do you know how to revert this situstion on the faulty account??
thanks!

thanks! i told you it was stupid! thanks for helping a switcher (1 year and a half already, shame on me!)
cheers

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I mistakenly deleted my Desktop icon in the sidebar. How do I get it back?

Click on an empty spot on the Desktop to activate Finder.
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Missing Network Icon

Hai i am new to this forum i configured TCP/IP LAN properly my windows PC's showed their icon in MAC Network Finder but now i can't see anything on network finder
please help me to solve the problem (i can access MAC pro from my XP PC's)
Advance thank you

I would restart the machine and see if it comes back.
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'NETWORK' ICON IN 'MY COMPUTOR' MISSING IT'S IMAGE ..?

Hi
my network icon image is missing when i open 'my computor'.
Only the title 'network' is visible.
It's always like this, even after restarts and repaired permissions.
The network icon does appear whole in the finder menu bar.
Any ideas anyone???
Thanks
didier

Hi didier!
That seems to be one of the great "Mysteries"!
Mine behaves the same way, although a restart will return it, only to disappear again. I don't have a clue what makes it run away from home.
The issue has been discussed here before, without any resolution that I know of.
It used to bother me, but as I'm not on a Network, I just decided to forget about it.
I do know that if once you get it to reappear, and then, keep the "My Computer" Finder window open at all times, the Network icon will not take a vacation.
I used to keep in as small as possible, in the bottom left corner of my screen, but as it's absence didn't create any operating problems, I finally quit doing that as well.
Although it doesn't bother me anymore, I'd still like to know what causes the icon to become the "Invisible Man".
ali b

Servers not appearing in sidebar or Network icon

My home LAN has another mac (running 10.4.10) as well as two NAS hard drives on it. Even though I've set Finder preferences to show Connected Computers and Bonjour Servers, none of them show up in the Sidebar.
Worse still, when I click on the Network icon (which no longer appears in the sidebar either, but is available under the computer name), it shows nothing! In other words, I can't browse for my servers and they don't show up in the sidebar.
The only way I can connect to them is to hit Connect to Server... in the finder and specify them by IP number, which is a pain. Seems to me I ought to be able to browse for them, the way I did in Tiger. I thought Leopard was supposed to make all this easier!
For what it's worth, I did an Archive and Install when I installed Leopard.

Have you turned file sharing on? When I did that on the server I wanted to view, it appeared in the sidebar automatically and then it is easier than Tiger. Screen sharing is very cool!

Personal File Sharing & Network in the Sidebar

I have had the same symptoms as other posts; but the real answer was not given, YET.
If you use the Network icon in the Sidebar, and you move between networks, Where or How do you Refresh the Finder? Rebooting or Shutdown is not the answer. Windows Networking on PCs allows for Refreshing, why not OS X?
My Senario: iMac G5 1.9 & iBook G4 1.33, both 10.4.10, no broadband, I share via Ad-Hoc. Both connect and IP given 169.x.x.x.
iBook will see iMac via Finder>Network Sidebar after about 5 seconds. iMac will not see iBook via Finder>Network Sidebar. Both have Network and Sharing set the same.
Using CMD+k, entering IP will bring up Authenticate window, which is fine, but DHCP is on, and the IP changes each time. Want Finder>Network to find the computer for me.
Using ShiftCMDK, on iBook, sometimes opens the Network Finder window, most times it never opens. (when at home)
iBook goes to hot-spots and when I come home, I want to off-load files to the iMac. The Network Sidebar remembers the last Network you were connected to with a list of all the computers you could connect to; I sleep the iBook.
Is there a terminal command to Refresh the Network without rebooting?
Big tip: I found an old Apple Article which states;
"The Local Hostname for your computer is an alternative to the network address. It is followed by ".local". Users on the same network subnet as your computer can use the Local Hostname name to access certain resources on your computer, such as your personal website. If you work in a large network environment, users on a different IP subnet cannot use the Local Hostname name of your computer."
So, if you use CMD+k while on your LAN and use "nnn.local" for the IP, you get the Authenticate window. This works fine, both machines can do this all day; But, still does not answer nor solve the question...
How do you Refresh Finder>Network ?!?!?
iMac G5 17-inch 1.9GHz SuperDrive (iSight) Mac OS X (10.4.10) 1.5GB RAM

Is there a terminal command to Refresh the Network without rebooting?
Couple of things that Might work...
sudo ipconfig set en0 BOOTP;sudo ipconfig set en0 DHCP
sudo ifocnfig en1 down
sudo ifconfig en1 up
(use en0 for Ethernet, en1 for Airport, etc.)
But making a New Location for each place would probably work best/easiest. You can tailor each location to it's needs.

IOS 8 upgrade and now missing airplay icon

I use AirPlay to stream music from both iTunes and Pandora on my iPhone 5 to an AirPort Express. After upgrading to iOS 8, I no longer have an AirPlay icon in Control Center. The AirPort Express and the iPhone 5 are both connected to the same network. The AirPort Express is very new (purchased new from Apple within the past 90 days). It all worked great before upgrading to iOS 8

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The problem of a missing AirPlay icon and missing AirPlay devices has not yet been fully resolved. The variations I've seen (on an iPad 4) are
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3) The AirPlay icon is displayed and its popup window contains a current list of all available streaming devices. This is what we want!
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Lost all my network adapters - network icon is X'ed out but still online

Win7 x64 - little backstory to explain how i got here...
This was a vista machine that i upgraded to win7. Everything worked after the upgrade except for hamachi (version 1). I did a reinstall of that and it fixed it, except i had 2 hamachi network interfaces listed in device manager, one of which was showing up as broken (yellow exclamation mark). Since everything was working i left it alone.
Fast forward to today - i tried to upgrade hamachi to hamachi 2. Seemed to work ok but i couldn't connect to any peers. Looking into it it said the hamachi adapter was faulty and looking at my network connections there was no hamachi adapter listed.
I opened device manager and there was just one hamachi nic listed and it was the broken one. I selected uninstall - checked the box to remove the driver and it uninstalled.
I then manually installed another instance of the hamachi network adapter. Hamachi still cant connect to peers - same error msg about the network adapter.
Only now, ALL of my network adapters are missing in the network connections folder. And the network status icon in the status tray is showing a red X as though it's not connected, even though this PC is online (i'm connecting to it through RDP).
I've already tried rebooting - no effect. So any ideas where all my network connections/adapters went and how to get this all sorted?
One more piece of info - if i right click on the network icon in the status tray and select troubleshoot, having another problem, specific adapter - on that screen it then lists 3 network adapters. Tried letting it diagnose all of them but no effect.
And if i open the network connections folder and go to help, advanced options, i get an 'unexpected error'

Hi,
This issue can occur by incompatible NIC driver or corrupted files. I suggest you try the following steps.
1. Uninstall the NIC driver and reinstall the driver for Windows Vista or Windows 7 in Compatibility Mode.
2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode with Networking and check the result.
If there is any error message, please capture and upload it for research.
Thanks,
Novak

Intermitent Eject symbol by Network icon in Finder pane

Please can anyone tell me why sometimes (and only sometimes) I get an eject symbol next to the network icon in the left pane of Finder windows?
Pressing it does nothing.
I wouldn't say I connect to a network but maybe I do and misunderstand the terminology - I use Airport to connect to a wireless internet router. There is one other computer that connects to the same router also wirelessly.
Airport also occasionally shows other wireless networks as well as mine, presumably from adjacent properties.
My only real concern would be if it meant other people were accessing my computer somehow via the 'network'.
I'm nearly always connected to the internet (when I'm logged into the computer) and it isn't a case that the symbol is there whenever I'm online and not when I'm not (although the latter could be true).
It seems odd that the eject symbol's appearance seems random and doesn't relate to when the other PC using the same router is/isn't online.
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The eject button next to the Network icon is a bug. It shouldn't be there. I've been waiting for it to be fixed for over a year.
On the other hand, it is harmless. When you are actually connected to another machine via any one of many networking protocols, it will show up in the sidebar with it's own (functional) eject button.
If you have file sharing turned off and/or have the firewall turned on, you need not worry about others accessing your computer remotely.

Accidently deleted "Network" icon in finder

I Accidently pulled the "Network" icon out of the finder window and now I can't get it back. I can't connect to another computer on my ethernet network. I can't even select "shift apple K" -- nothing comes up.
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Try...
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Network Icon Not Responding

I click on Finder and then Computer. Within Finder, I see an icon for my hard drive and network. However, when I click on the icon, I get no response. I don't seem to have a problem if I click the network icon in the sidebar or from the Go menu and then Network.
One other note, the network icon looks like a folder. It no longer looks like a globe or ball.

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I accidentally removed my Network icon from the finder panel. Anyway I can't get it back now and when I Apple K, I can't locate anything on the network anyway the only way to do this was to use the network icon when it was in the left area on the panel.
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I think this works in 10.4 (but not in 10.5)
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