We have a small network at home and I use file sharing frequently. Since upgrading to Panther I've been confounded by how it is handled now. When I log onto another computer its icon isn't mounted to the desktop or to the sidebar. There's no visual hint at all that I am sharing and no way to log off. At least that's what I thought until this morning.
I got a new wireless base station and was configuring it this morning (Apple's base station may be a more expensive but it certainly are less complicated to configure.) Anyway, as I was configuring with the PC and testing file sharing and printer sharing with my PowerBook I made two discoveries. If everyone else has figured this out, sorry.
1. When you browse the network you see icons of all the computers you can fileshare with. Those that you have already connected to have a slightly different icon than those that aren't connected. The difference is so subtle that I've missed noticing it for a week. Also, I noticed that when you open a window to browse the network the icons all tend to show as disconnected and then after a few seconds the connected computers' icon will change to reflect that it is connected.
2. if you control select (right select) a connected computer's icon one of the options in the contextual menu is eject. Eject also shows up in the File menu.
This is complicated by the fact that after connecting to the computer, the window changes to display the computer you've connected to so you have to reselect the network window first.
I hope this helps those who were as confused about Panther and filesharing as I was.
I have been confronted with the same problem. The workaround that I use is to not mount the volumes with the browser: if they are mounted by entering their address (e.g. afp://thismachine) they do appear on the desktop and sidebar and can be ejected conveniently clicking on the little eject button next to them in the side bar. Adding the server thus mounted to the list of favorite servers (in the connect to server... dialog, click on the + button), you don't have to retype the address the next time.
Although this workaround lets me use the server volumes the way they ought to be, I do believe the odd browser behavior to be a serious inconsistency (as well as a security concern). This has been noted elsewhere (Macintouch, I believe) and people have sent bug reports to Apple. I hope they fix it by 10.3.1.
Luis
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