"Unknowns" in the Finder SHARED folder

With the install of Leopard the Finder Sidebar displays SHARED items or sources.
I am not part of a Network and have never used SHARE features so I am ignorant about the abilities and terminology - sorry.
My issue is that unknown identities are appearing under under the SHARED heading of the sidebar. Does this mean I am 'connected' to someone or something?
Currently there are 2 computer icons, one named 'dimension', another named 'your-727a0a....'
Can anyone shed light on what this all means?

As a test, try turning off all wireless network services on your Mac. One way to do this is to create a new "Location" in Network preferences & remove every service in the left pane except Built-in Ethernet by using the "-" (minus symbol) button below the list.
Make this Location the active one & see if the "Shared" items disappear. If so, they are being detected by your Mac's wireless network capabilities. This doesn't mean they are connected, only that the Mac is aware of them.
Alternately, command click on the icon of the item in the Shared section of the sidebar (not on its name) & from the popup menu select "Get Info." What does it say?

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package com.ftp;
import com.thortech.xl.scheduler.tasks.SchedulerBaseTask;
import org.apache.commons.net.ftp.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
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Cheers,
Sunny

sunnyajmera wrote:
Please help.If it was me....
- You are connecting to a ftp server. I am guessing you didn't write that.
- Get a flexible ftp client, there are many but make sure it shows you the ftp result codes.
- Figure out how and if the ftp server will do what you want.
If it does do what you want then ftp client will let you do the same thing.
If that ftp server doesn't allow you to do it then you must do one of the following
- Find a different server
- Change the requirements
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