Icons under 'SHARED' changing shape randomly

simhaw

simhaw

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This is my first post...

In the Finder sidebar I see icons representing other computers on my network. Sometimes they are blue images of a computer, other times they are images of disks. I have included some screen shots of both versions and wonder if anybody can explain why they randomly change?

Appreciate any response.
 

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Blue icons indicate Windows shares, or shares that are discovered using the SAMBA/SMB protocol. As an aside, if you are able to change the size of that icon and make it really big, you'll see it's actually a "blue screen of death" icon... a little friendly ribbing from one company to another.

In other words, the icons will change depending on which protocol is used to access that share -- a "disk" icon, I believe, is an NFS share.
 
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