Why does my Pi get a strange network icon in macOS ?

[TD540]

I installed the latest Raspbian on a Pi 4 and installed samba on it, and now my Pi shows up in my macOS Network with a weird icon.

Can I fix this somehow?

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[W. H. Heydt]

I would take that as MacOS having no idea what a Pi is and/or no specific icon to go with it. The problem is almost certainly MacOS. Ask Apple why MacOS cannot display an appropriate icon for a Pi. They *might* have to--*gasp*--pay actual money to the RPF to license the use of the Pi logo... (Or they might have tried doing so without a license and have been sent a "cease and desist" letter. Big corporations tend to be a little fast and loose with *other* peoples intellectual property all while zealously guarding their own.)

[scruss]

It could also be something to do with Samba's vfs_fruit module. Apple has done some odd things to Windows networking, and the default configs for Samba that I've seen use these extensions for better compatibility. One of the extensions allows you to set custom icons for servers. I suspect that your mac doesn't recognize a Raspberry Pi as a machine type, but sees a server that knows a bit ab out Mac OS quirks, but then can't find a custom icon for it.

As long as it works …