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How to access AE TC remotely

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myname70

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Guys, I set an Export Extreme TC (latest generation ) shared but cannot realise how to access it from a public Internet. Any ideas to access it from windows, Mac, android devises?
 
myname70 said:
Sure I know... but the AE TC does not have built in VPN access. .. This case if I need VPN -I have to keep the iMac switched ON all the time
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BTW enabling Back to My Mac will create a VPN tunnel directly to your TC. And it works beautifully all over the internet.
It's just that some ISP configurations don't allow this setup. Main requirement is - the TC needs to be your outermost router and get it's IP address via DHCP from your ISP. If you've locked down to use the router/modem of your ISP, then you're out of luck. Unless you know how to make Internet directly visible to WAN port of your TC.
As a side note - BtMM uses the same ports as L2TP VPN protocol and does internal port forwarding to itself.
 
priitv8 said:
BTW enabling Back to My Mac will create a VPN tunnel directly to your TC. And it works beautifully all over the internet.
It's just that some ISP configurations don't allow this setup. Main requirement is - the TC needs to be your outermost router and get it's IP address via DHCP from your ISP. If you've locked down to use the router/modem of your ISP, then you're out of luck. Unless you know how to make Internet directly visible to WAN port of your TC.
As a side note - BtMM uses the same ports as L2TP VPN protocol and does internal port forwarding to itself.
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I have activated Back to my mac. And the AE is my main router. So, now what? How to access TM from windows PC or other mac ?
 
myname70 said:
I have activated Back to my mac. And the AE is my main router. So, now what? How to access TM from windows PC or other mac ?
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BtMM does not help you with Windows ;)
On a Mac, you shall see it appear on Finder sidebar, just as if you were home.
on windows you need to know either your external IP address or use a DDNS service to assign a name to your dynamic IP and use that to connect:
smb://your-hostname.com or smb://your.ip.add.ress
I don't think that windows service discovery is any good for that over a WAN connection.
PS Obviously you also need to be sure your ISP has ports open and allows access to TCP/UDP ports 445 (SMB) and 548 (AFP) of your router.
 
myname70 said:
I have activated Back to my mac. And the AE is my main router. So, now what? How to access TM from windows PC or other mac ?
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It will integrate with your Mac seamlessly provided you turned on "Back To My Mac" in :apple: --> System Preferences --> iCloud. When you say "How to access TM from windows PC or other mac ?" what do you mean? TM stands for Time Machine and if that is what you are trying to do then it is useless. Backups over the internet are very unstable and easily corrupted. If you just want to access the hard drive you would need to check "Share Disks Over WAN" in AirPort Utility.
 
Altemose said:
It will integrate with your Mac seamlessly provided you turned on "Back To My Mac" in :apple: --> System Preferences --> iCloud. When you say "How to access TM from windows PC or other mac ?" what do you mean? TM stands for Time Machine and if that is what you are trying to do then it is useless. Backups over the internet are very unstable and easily corrupted. If you just want to access the hard drive you would need to check "Share Disks Over WAN" in AirPort Utility.
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Yes, I want to access the HDD in the TC. And the share disk over wan is checked. But how to access it from a PC ?
 
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