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back to my mac problem
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I thought you were able to from another network that is over the internet.
"Access and control your Mac running Mac OS X Leopard from any other Leopard-based Mac over the Internet right in the new Finder. With .Mac and Back to My Mac, youre always close to your files and applications."
Didn't think you had to be on the same netowork
"Access and control your Mac running Mac OS X Leopard from any other Leopard-based Mac over the Internet right in the new Finder. With .Mac and Back to My Mac, youre always close to your files and applications."
Didn't think you had to be on the same netowork
DoFoT9
macrumors P6
on an intranet you'd have to be on the same network... my bad i wasnt sure of your situation.
uumm to access your mac or documents youd have to have a .mac account, how exactly are you trying to control them?? view the screens? look at the hard drive?
synth3tik
macrumors 68040
It's nothing you are doing wrong. Back to my Mac does not work at all. on the support page Apple said they are working on it. But really it is starting to sound like you will have to be admin to other networks. The way it sounds is that you will have to make sure that the router is updated to the latest firmware and adjust some settings into it. All this of course would make the whole concept worthless. I really hope Apple gets this together. I have been paying too much money for too long for my .mac account and am bothered that I can not get all this stuff that Apple is promising.
Quillz
macrumors 65816
Yeah, it doesn't work for me, either. Apple claims it now works better in 10.5.1, so I'll give it a try tomorrow when I'm at school. It's a shame, too, as it's a very useful thing to take advantage of, and I wouldn't have to pay monthly for a third party service like GoToMyPC.
synth3tik
macrumors 68040
Well the coffee shop I go to uses a linksys wireless router (have no idea what one) and we have a T3 and 2 T1s at work running from qwest. In 10.5.1 I still get nothing. So, sadly I don't think you will notice any change at school in the morning.
My first guess would be that you have a configuration issue on your router/firewall that is preventing you from seeing your home Mac. So far, I've had no problems with B2MM except for an occasional screen sharing freeze (that was fixed by closing/reopening the desktop window).
Your problems could also be your IT department at work not allowing access through the corporate firewall. I know that I cannot access my home Mac from work because of this.
Your problems could also be your IT department at work not allowing access through the corporate firewall. I know that I cannot access my home Mac from work because of this.
koobcamuk
macrumors 68040
Maybe this is it. 🙁
I can access the work computer from home, but not the home from work. It's a bit of a shame, but I'll live I guess. Kind of defeats the whole thing though.
Maybe my home router has a port closed? Which ports might I need to open? I think it's a bit silly really.
MacBlackBook22
macrumors 6502
Originally I had that same result. My home computer could connect to the roaming one but not the other way round. So I fixed that by deleting them both from .mac and reset them this time doing the away one first then the setting up the home one second and this did the trick the away computer has no problem now connecting to the home one from anywhere I take it