'shared' in the sidebar

[LuKreme]

On 18-Nov-2007, at 07:48, Charles Dyer wrote:

> Leopard is supposed to automatically pick up other machines which  
> have file sharing turned on and park 'em in the 'Shared' section of  
> the Finder sidebar, right? This is supposed to work with Macs and  
> WinBoxes, automagically, right?
>
> Around here, Macs show in the sidebar, no problem. WinBoxes show in  
> the sidebar, _if I select 'em using the good old 'Connect to Server'  
> menuitem from the 'Go' menu. And, as I connect using an IP address,  
> they show as an IP, not as a name.

I've not seen behavior nearly that consistent with windows machines.   
Sometime they are there, sometimes they are not. I've seen no rhyme or  
reason to the pattern.

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