Why can my wife see my Macbook in her Finder sidebar, but I can't see hers?
Wanting to share files, I checked my Finder sidebar and couldn't find my wife's Macbook listed there. I could have sworn that it used to be displayed there under 'SHARED', but even the 'SHARED' is no longer visible. On my wife's Macbook, she has 'SHARED' with the name of my Macbook underneath, with her able to select it and access files, like I should be able to. I have checked settings for Finder and Sharing in Preferences, and our settings, from what I can see, are identical. If I select Finder, and click 'Go' in the menu and select Network, her Macbook is listed, and I can connect to it from there. Once more, in Finder preferences, if I tick 'Connected Servers' under 'Show these items on the desktop', my wife's Macbook appears on the desktop.
Can someone please tell me why I can't get it to appear under 'SHARED' on my sidebar, just like she can with mine?
We both have Leopard 10.5.2.
Thanks.
Thanks for your post, but as I said, I have checked both our settings and they are identical- as my wife must have these checked in order to see mine, then I must (and indeed do) have them checked too.
However I have just, in the last minute, found the source of the problem. Open DNS. This was the one thing I have done on mine and not on my wife's. I have removed the open DNS servers from my DNS list and rebooted, and SHARED is now visible again on the sidebar along with my wife's Macbook under it. I found this site here which explains it a little more, along with a way to fix the problem-
http://www.youbitch.org/blog/2007/nov/11/note-to-self-missing-shared-in-leopard- sidebar/
However, the solution looked too complicated for me, so I just removed Open DNS instead- it's not worth the hassle.
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