Question not found in FAQs or other documentation
To whom it concerns, I am a relatively basic/amateur computer user and I just noticed today that my recent servers lists Free BSD. I do not knowingly connect to any outside servers and am concerned that any server has been connected to my computer. My question is: how can I prevent this server from ever connecting to my computer again? And anything else I can do to delete this server, this connection I have an Apple powerbook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11. I would most appreciate a response. Thank you kindly for your time, Jon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question not found in FAQs or other documentation
On 5/15/10 5:57 PM, jon wrote: To whom it concerns, Not us, really. This strikes me much more as a Mac OS or local network support issue. I am a relatively basic/amateur computer user and I just noticed today that my recent servers lists Free BSD. Your recent servers list where? We need more details. I suspect you mean Finder-Connect to Server-Recent Servers, but that's just an educated guess. I do not knowingly connect to any outside servers and am concerned that any server has been connected to my computer. You really need to determine what computer on your network(s) identifies itself with the name Free BSD if you wish to track this down. If you dislike the fact that Mac OS X tries to list other computers on your local network, I'd strongly urge you to go into System Preferences and make sure that all sharing services are turned off and that the firewall is turned on with the most locked down set of options. However, keep in mind that Mac OS X likes to list other local computers which make file services available over AFP or SMB, and this does *not* mean that the other computers are connecting to your laptop (although it doesn't rule it out either). My question is: how can I prevent this server from ever connecting to my computer again? And anything else I can do to delete this server, this connection I've seen nothing in your description to indicate that there is a current connection of any type. If it bugs you, what about hitting the clear recent servers button, should that exist in 10.4. (I have nothing older than 10.5 to look at.) And make sure that *your* sharing is off and firewall is on. I have an Apple powerbook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11. Upgrade to Mac OS 10.5.8 if your hardware supports it. It's still getting more attention from Apple. -- --Jon Radel j...@radel.com
Re: Question not found in FAQs or other documentation
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:57:35PM -0400, jon wrote: To whom it concerns, I am a relatively basic/amateur computer user and I just noticed today that my recent servers lists Free BSD. I do not knowingly connect to any outside servers and am concerned that any server has been connected to my computer. My question is: how can I prevent this server from ever connecting to my computer again? And anything else I can do to delete this server, this connection Out of curiosity, I looked in the Recent Servers list in a couple of Macs that I have, and the only thing I could find were local file servers. A server is a process that accepts requests for services. Typically, they don't iniciate connections. As near as I can tell from the Mac documentation, the Recent Servers list is a list of servers that you've connected to, and nothing more. I suggest clicking on the item in your Recent Servers list and finding out what you connect to. If you have any further questions you should post them in a Mac forum, since the question of which servers you've been connected to really has nothing to do with the Free BSD operating system. Best of luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
