Network Icon Problems!!!

So I just got my 20" iMac and everything seemed to work okay with my PC. I was able to use the network icon to see the PC and could connect no problems at all... now, when I try to go to the network icon, it doesnt do anything at all. I goto Go -> Network -> nothing! If I goto connect to server, I can get to my PC no problems... the only thing I can think is that I updated the iMac.. is anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it? Please help, this is frustrating!
20" iMac Intel Core2 Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Yes, but perhaps that "alias" in the Finder's Network has changed it's addy.
Might try this... after you Connect to the Server like you did Find the Globe Icon for the PC on the Desktop, drag it to the right side of the Dock, just to the left of the Trash.

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I have an Intel Mac Mini Core 2 Duo w/OS X 1.4.10.
My Network icon shows up in Finder just fine. BUT, below that it only shows three folders
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I can't see or browse my network at all. I can click on Go --> Connect To Server and manually do it, but I would rather have the option to see all the machines on my network. I have tried removing and re-adding the Network icon in Finder | Preferences. I have done a killall -HUP Finder.
I tried deleting all of those folders. Now my Network is empty, at least according to the OS X point of view.
On the flip side, I know Samba is working because I can browse the Mac from all my PC's.
Does any of you Mac guru's know what's going on? I know *nix and I know Windows. Mac's are fairly new to me...
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username/password - I inherited this machine so yes, I am pretty sure I might have done that. Would it be easier to create another user and that way the preferences would be "fresh"?
Hey, great idea for a test!
I saw in that other Network folder problem thread about deleting a file called com.apple.systempreferences (or something very similar). Would that help?
The partial list of filesfolders I've seen cause problems are...
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
/Users/nnnnLibrary/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/SystemConfiguration/
I haven't been using it very long so configuring settings over again isn't a big issue.
If User settings aren't the problem... doesn't look like it to me so far, then an Archive and Install from your Install CD/DVD might be the trick.
P.S. Should I have to recreate the Network folder after reboot? applejack didn't recreate it if it was supposed to...
No, Applejack doesn't create anything... the OS should re-create that Network stuff once it reboots and finds none... maybe you have to toggle/do some Network stuff afterwards... not sure... still a bit blown away that what I did to fix the problem in several instances like yours... came up empty on your end!

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

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I have accidentally deleted the Network Browser from my finder windows. Now, I can't see anybody on my network if I go via my Computer name or Go > Network or Go > Connect to server. I can obviously still connect to people, because I have a folder that I use regularly kept in my dock and when I click on that I can still connect to that PC... so it is just not "browsing" properly.
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I'm having the same problem, i have the network icon, but no ability to browse around. I did a day to two ago (I think), I may have deleted something. We just added a new computer (G5) and are moving other hardware around.

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"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.
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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.
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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 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.

Hi,
Please reinstall your network adapter driver to check the result.
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

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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!
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my network icon image is missing when i open 'my computor'.
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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.
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Current situation...
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Trend Micro detected a problem:
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Trojan name: TROJ Generic.ADV
Restart now | Restart Later"
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I have seen two other posts with the identical problem in http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3842672&SiteID=17.
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Warning: Do not delete system files. Bad things will probably ensue.
If you need to delete or overwrite a system file in Windows Vista, you'll quickly notice that you cannot delete system files, even as administrator. This is because Windows Vista's system files are owned by the TrustedInstaller service by default, and Windows File Protection will keep them from being overwritten.
Thankfully, there's a way that you can get around this. You need to take ownership of the files, and then assign yourself rights to delete or modify the file. For this, we'll use the command line.
Open an administrator command prompt by typing cmd into the start menu search box, and hit the Ctrl+Shift+Enter key combination.
To take ownership of the file, you'll need to use the takeown command. Here's an example:
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cacls C:\Windows\System32\nlasvc.dll /G your username:F
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Chartered Information Technology Professional

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How can I enable it?
What I've tried so far:
- Local Group Policy Editor
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Thank you for these suggestions, JoeLouis.
Before I go any further I would like to mention a few details:
(1) the same issue affects the "notification" icon. It is also greyed out.
(2) Even when I click on "always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar", the network and notification icons do not show up.
(3) I bought the laptop 2 weeks ago and I set the OS back to before the very first software I installed. No difference.
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HI
Also, once you mark it Solved, you can't award points
I am confused by this. Where in Terms of Use does it say you can't? Do you have personal experience of this (as an OP who asked a question)?
I asked a question months ago, marked it answered. After closing it I awarded a green star, months later Helpful button still available.
I suppose OP could always have remarked question as 'unanswered', awarded the points, then marked it 'Answered' again IF you are correct.
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Sounds like that is coming from the screen saver (probably called .Mac) that uses shared pictures in your .Mac online storage. It is not directly related to any "network option."
If you choose to use a random screen saver, when the .Mac screen saver is selected at random, it wants to know what .Mac account to use for the pictures it displays. You can either not use the random choice, and pick a screen saver that is not the .Mac screen saver. Or you can remove the .Mac screen saver from the list of choices. Since it's just a screen saver module, there should not be any problem with removing it.
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I am totally new to Apple OS and it's now my job to administer them as a member of staff has left us who used to do all the mac admin.
We have an issue with adding a network icon to the dock. Some machines display it fine and others don't.
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This seems to work.
However the process I have to get to just to unlock the go menu and access the shortcut is rediculous hence wanting this to be an automated thing.
I have these .nib files that I have to copy over and replace over system files just to unlock the go menu, then I have to log out, log in, browse the network to then get the shortcut, lock the machine down and log out again.
We have about 40 macs and i'm not keen on manually doing this on all of them.
Here's the document I follow for this procedure:
To Regain sidebar and go accses replace the folder in /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MenuBar .nib for the ones in Lockfider restorgo to:-/
cd /Users/administrator/Desktop/Lockfinder/Restorego/MenuBar.nib
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cd /Users/administrator/Desktop/Lockfinder/Restorego/PreferencesWindow.nib
sudo cp -r * "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PreferencesWindow.nib"
To LOck down again Copy the files in Lockdowngo to /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
cd /Users/administrator/Desktop/Lockfinder/Lockdowngo/MenuBar.nib
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