The source of the problem has been located. The iMac "fire.rlpcon.loc" had printer sharing turned on; turning it off solved the problem. Originally this iMac was out of signal range of the wifi network, and had an HP Deskjet printer next to it. It connected to the printer via local wifi, and shared it over the ethernet. When the house wifi was recently upgraded both the Deskjet and that iMac were within the signal range for the house wifi, and are accessible as networked devices. For some reason, which I don't understand, having printer sharing turned on resulted in the Finder showing the Deskjet printer in its Shared list as a PC (Windows computer). It was even more confused in the Path Finder app browser; that browser showed both the Deskjet printer and a disk attached to an Airport Extreme as PCs.
> > From: Jared Earle <[email protected]> > Date: March 19, 2010 7:36:38 PM EDT > To: Richard Peskin <[email protected]> > Cc: macosx-admin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Unknown PC server in Shared list > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Richard Peskin <[email protected]> wrote: >> fire.rlpcon.loc (192.168.1.24) at 64:b9:e8:cb:67:9a on en0 ifscope [ethernet] > > 64:b9:e8 means an Apple device. > >> fire.westell.com (192.168.1.178) at 4:1e:64:ea:a6:35 on en0 ifscope >> [ethernet] > > 04:1e:64 is also an Apple device. Got an iPhone, AppleTV or anything > else? Maybe it's the other side of an Airport. I presume the airports > have ethernet and wifi turned on. > > -- > Jared Earle :: There is no SPORK > [email protected] :: http://jearle.eu > Hosting :: http://cat5.org > Blog :: http://blog.23x.net > > > > > From: objectwerks inc <[email protected]> > Date: March 19, 2010 8:01:57 PM EDT > To: macosx-admin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Unknown PC server in Shared list > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > > On Mar 19, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Jared Earle wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Richard Peskin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> fire.rlpcon.loc (192.168.1.24) at 64:b9:e8:cb:67:9a on en0 ifscope >>> [ethernet] >> >> 64:b9:e8 means an Apple device. >> >>> fire.westell.com (192.168.1.178) at 4:1e:64:ea:a6:35 on en0 ifscope >>> [ethernet] >> >> 04:1e:64 is also an Apple device. Got an iPhone, AppleTV or anything >> else? Maybe it's the other side of an Airport. I presume the airports >> have ethernet and wifi turned on. >> > > > I don't know if this list is complete but here is a prefix list on who is > assigned which address prefix for ethernet. Just in case anyone was > wondering how Jared might know this (I don't know which list he was working > off of but this list would do it) > > http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt > > > > > > > From: Richard Peskin <[email protected]> > Date: March 20, 2010 12:20:23 AM EDT > To: Jared Earle <[email protected]> > Cc: macosx-admin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Unknown PC server in Shared list > > > > On Mar 19, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Jared Earle wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Richard Peskin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> fire.rlpcon.loc (192.168.1.24) at 64:b9:e8:cb:67:9a on en0 ifscope >>> [ethernet] >> >> 64:b9:e8 means an Apple device. > 64:b9:e8 is the iMac named fire.rlpcon.loc at the static address 192.168.1.24 > on the wired ethernet >> >>> fire.westell.com (192.168.1.178) at 4:1e:64:ea:a6:35 on en0 ifscope >>> [ethernet] >> >> 04:1e:64 is also an Apple device. > 04:1e:64 is the same iMac (fire) on the wireless network. The router assigns > the domain name westell.com to the DHCP clients for which it provides IP > addresses; in my case all the wireless clients. The 3 computers have both > ethernet and wifi active to allow one of them (MacBook) to be used anywhere > while allowing rapid file transfers when connected to the ethernet. I haven't > tried turning off the wifi on the iMac. I might note that this problem > started when a new model Airport Extreme was installed replacing a 3 y/o > model. >> Got an iPhone, AppleTV or anything >> else? > There is an iTouch at DHCP served address 192.168.1.198 >> Maybe it's the other side of an Airport. I presume the airports >> have ethernet and wifi turned on. >> >> -- >> Jared Earle :: There is no SPORK >> [email protected] :: http://jearle.eu >> Hosting :: http://cat5.org >> Blog :: http://blog.23x.net > > > > > > > ____________________________________ > Richard L. Peskin, RLP Consulting, Londonderry, VT > http://www.rlpcon.com > > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
