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Apple Eliminating Back to My Mac Service in All Versions of macOS in July
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Assign your Mac's MAC address to be the default server address on your LAN and you can access your Mac using vnc:// which is available from the Go menu > Network. No need for Remote Desktop.
Yep. Plenty of options for VNC clients. I use Jump to connect to both Macs and PC’s, though Microsoft Remote Desktop works very well to the office through our RAS gateways.
Just need to do a little port forwarding on the router to get back to your Mac. Not really that complicated.
Mac Remote Desktop is more than just a remote desktop app as it’s more about central management. Yes it is $80, but before the App store it was a LOT more. Another of those apps that Apple decided was better to sell many at $80 than a few at $400 or whatever it was.
Just need to do a little port forwarding on the router to get back to your Mac. Not really that complicated.
Mac Remote Desktop is more than just a remote desktop app as it’s more about central management. Yes it is $80, but before the App store it was a LOT more. Another of those apps that Apple decided was better to sell many at $80 than a few at $400 or whatever it was.
This was a lifesaver back in the iChat days. I used this feature all the time to provide tech support to people switching from PC to Mac... Haven't used it in a loooooong time, so I can't say that I'll miss it. I think I've just transitioned most of my friends/family to the Mac, so I haven't needed it.
Can you list a few personal examples of content you've lost from Apple?
Google and Microsoft did the same. They shut down user loved services or software with any reason and users can do nothing but watching it gone.
One major reason I don’t want to rent contents.
I wouldn't know, actually. Remote Desktop was pretty bad featurewise.
TeamViewer works absolutely amazing, through firewalls and everything. File transfer included. Works cross platform.
Yes, if you dont enable screen sharing port 5900 is closed.
No. Completely different thing. That's file sharing and still works just fine on Mojave.
All this talk about VNC replacements, has anyone actually found a replacement for remotely mounting your file system over BTMM other than local file sharing + VPN connection? Cloud file sharing does not count. If I have to move the files into a predetermined folder before I access them remotely, it's not really a substitute.
If your comfortable setting up SSH, SSHFS could meet your needs.
Back to My Mac seems to use a rather unusual IPv6-based addressing scheme. It's possible they just don't want to maintain their kludgy system anymore.
What would be nice is if they would build in ssh tunneling to Screen Sharing, since VNC isn't a particularly secure protocol. Sure, you can set it up yourself - but most people aren't going to think about doing that.
What would be nice is if they would build in ssh tunneling to Screen Sharing, since VNC isn't a particularly secure protocol. Sure, you can set it up yourself - but most people aren't going to think about doing that.
Shame. But I understand the reasoning. If you're not going to maintain something, better to remove it so it's not a security concern.
Well, "secure empty trash" isn't really necessary - nor recommended - with SSDs. It's the same reason they eliminated the "securely erase disk" options from the graphical version of Disk Utility.
IPv6 is standard technology, just not as human-friendly as IPv4. By no means is it "their" system. I think the biggest problem is that IPv6 support is not consistent across the Internet, and this may have impacted the Back to my Mac experience.
[doublepost=1559328189][/doublepost]I hope this doesn't impact the Screen Sharing app itself. I use this all the time to connect to my store's computer 7 hours away. As long as the computer is registered with iCloud, you just need to use an email address to connect to it. Works like a charm!
With Screen Sharing, a person does need to accept the connection request at the other end. I guess that's the difference with Back to my Mac, where both computers share the same iCloud account.
Disappointed, as I used this to access my home Mac when I was on the road. Could set up a VNC server if I really find I miss it.
To reference both a biblical verse and a song, there is a time for everything. Those time come... and they go. We don't store our data using the same technologies as 20 years ago... and 20 years from now we will be amazed at what we can do!
Use what you've got... Keep backups... Migrate when necessary... and don't sweat the small stuff!
Much less of a headache than talking the remote user through setting up a secure tunnel. Plus, Teamviewer QS doesn't require installation so it's usually less than a minute for remote user to run app and relay OTP authentication to get assistance and since it's not a service it's completely gone when app is closed. So, no secure tunnel setup, convenience, no software installation and no running service far outweigh the 3rd party concern. As a backup AnyDesk is also free for personal use.
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