Spear Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I'm having some weird problem with my shared network at home. I have several computers hooked onto my network and sometimes I see doubles of the same computer. For example my brother's computer is called Nick's computer, then I see his clone ethernet address as a guest connect by the name of mac00...(ethernet address). And instead of said clone being a Mac server, in the description it says PC server. To tell you the truth it scared the living out of me, anyone have an ideas? I'll post a pic if needed if no one understands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigPimpin Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 It has to do with Bonjour and Samba. If a machine is running both - and it's hard to get the former without the latter on a non-Mac - then you will see them show up 2x. It's more or less normal and there's not much you can do about it. I tried Is Nick's computer running Linux by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spear Posted July 18, 2008 Author Share Posted July 18, 2008 It has to do with Bonjour and Samba. If a machine is running both - and it's hard to get the former without the latter on a non-Mac - then you will see them show up 2x. It's more or less normal and there's not much you can do about it. I tried Is Nick's computer running Linux by any chance? Nope, it's pretty much two identical Imacs running side by side, except i have 500GB of hard drive space . And then another 500 from an external one lol , hmm renaming the imacs cancel the vision of my brother's clone pc server thing. But renaming mine had no dice, my dad can still see my computer with a cloned version. ARG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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