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New Time Machine/AirPort Extreme + MobileMe Feature: Personal File Server
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I have extensively tested the BTMM feature in my updated TC (7.4.1) with my MM settings and it DOES NOT WORK. I have tried accessing my TC hard drive on 3 different computers (MBP, iBook and iMac 24) all running Leopard and all updated with the new software updates release couple of days ago and it just does not work.
Here are the problems:
1) With the MM login and pwd entered on my TC and BTMM enabled in my MBP, I see 2 identically named TC disks in the Time Machine Change disk dialog if I am on my home network. If I click the 1st one, nothing happens except the spinning pizza of death. If I click on the 2nd one, I can do my usual Time Machine backup. If I turn off BTMM on my machine, the ghost TC disk disappears and on the real one remains.
I think what is happening is that enabling the BTMM, the WAN version of my TC disk shows up, but it does not work for some reason. The LAN one works of course.
All this is on my home network.
2) If I now leave mu home network and move my MBP to another location with a different TC, I can see only one copy of my own TC disk as well the local TC disk with the BTMM on. If I try to connect to my own TC over the WAN, all I get is the spinning pizza of death and it eventually times out.
If I try to connect to my own TC disk in the finder sidebar (it shows up OK), again nothing happens and eventually it times out.
I strongly suspect some bug in this much needed feature.
So, Back To My Mac, works off a Time Machine Backup? That would be awesome, if i could Use my Mac Settings, from the Time Machine back up, rather than having my MacBook Pro On.
If it has to be regular un archived files, it wouldnt be as useful to me.
If it has to be regular un archived files, it wouldnt be as useful to me.
I have extensively tested the BTMM feature in my updated TC (7.4.1) with my MM settings and it DOES NOT WORK. I have tried accessing my TC hard drive on 3 different computers (MBP, iBook and iMac 24) all running Leopard and all updated with the new software updates release couple of days ago and it just does not work.
Here are the problems:
1) With the MM login and pwd entered on my TC and BTMM enabled in my MBP, I see 2 identically named TC disks in the Time Machine Change disk dialog if I am on my home network. If I click the 1st one, nothing happens except the spinning pizza of death. If I click on the 2nd one, I can do my usual Time Machine backup. If I turn off BTMM on my machine, the ghost TC disk disappears and on the real one remains.
I think what is happening is that enabling the BTMM, the WAN version of my TC disk shows up, but it does not work for some reason. The LAN one works of course.
All this is on my home network.
2) If I now leave my home network and move my MBP to another location with a different TC, I can see only one copy of my own TC disk as well the local TC disk with the BTMM on. If I try to connect to my own TC over the WAN, all I get is the spinning pizza of death and it eventually times out.
If I try to connect to my own TC disk in the finder sidebar (it shows up OK), again nothing happens and eventually it times out.
I suspect a bug in this much needed feature.
New TC and remote access
Hello clayj
I agree with you. It's silly to pay the subscription.
I liked your guide on how to set up the TC but it seems to be a problem.
I got yesterday the new TC, at the moment is set on Bridge mode. It's connected on my Netgear router. I have opened port 548 and set up a service for 192.168.0.4 (TC)
When I use connect to server with afp://externalIPaddress:548 I get an error message. I believe I have to change some settings on the TC vi Airport Utility. The new Airport Utility gives you the option to set a dynamic global hostname and then it gets hairy...
Please can you offer some advice on how to work around the problem?
thank you
Hello clayj
I agree with you. It's silly to pay the subscription.
I liked your guide on how to set up the TC but it seems to be a problem.
I got yesterday the new TC, at the moment is set on Bridge mode. It's connected on my Netgear router. I have opened port 548 and set up a service for 192.168.0.4 (TC)
When I use connect to server with afp://externalIPaddress:548 I get an error message. I believe I have to change some settings on the TC vi Airport Utility. The new Airport Utility gives you the option to set a dynamic global hostname and then it gets hairy...
Please can you offer some advice on how to work around the problem?
thank you
does anyone know if ull be able to access your stuff via the iphone
E.G videos and music, when using the time capsule with file server
E.G videos and music, when using the time capsule with file server
I got it to work on my machines. It connected to my time machine and to one of the drives that are connected to that Time capsule. Its a Seagate Drive, the 2 my books it wouldn't get to work.
When you first click on the time machine you have to use the connect button and put in the password to the AEBS machine. Then it works.
When you first click on the time machine you have to use the connect button and put in the password to the AEBS machine. Then it works.
Multiple mobile me accounts
Is there anyway to use this features with multiple mobile me accounts? i.e., my wife and I would both like to access the disk remotely (through this new feature), but we have different mobileme accounts.
Is there anyway to use this features with multiple mobile me accounts? i.e., my wife and I would both like to access the disk remotely (through this new feature), but we have different mobileme accounts.
adammlowe, as you can read by this Apple Discussions thread, Time Capsule currently only supports connecting with a single MobileMe account. Please reply in that thread and/or bug Apple about it so they might implement multiple MobileMe account support in a future firmware update! 