New (unknown) people on my bonjour buddy list

hi folks,
so here's a weird one... a week or two ago, i noticed other users on my bonjour buddy list at my studio... just as a precaution, i changed the password on my wireless router, shut it down, and powered in back up, in the event these folks were piggybacking onto my wireless signal, but they're still there.
i even went so far as to message one of them, asking (as politely as i could) if they were on my network, and they promply disappeared without responding.
any idea on this? it's probably not a big deal, but i'm just curious.
thanks!

Hi wymanwyman,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions
Unfortunately for the Bonjour side of things it is a little more difficult to be as secure as you wnat.
It is Zero Confiuration and that does not need any routing or other settings for the Mac to discover other Macs.
Start here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107800
One wat is to change the Workgroup name that Rndezvous/Boinjour uses to do this.
In Applications/Utilities open Directory Access
If needed use the padlock and your Admin password.
Click on the line with SMB at the bottom of the list
Click the Configure Button.
In the Popout change the WORKGROUP name to something that only you would know/use.
Click Ok/Apply.
This should stop other people accessing your Network via Bonjour or it's previous name Rendezvous.
12:40 PM Thursday; April 12, 2007

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