Mitch 751

Q: back to my mac iCloud server not responding

Anyone has the same problem as me ?

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 12:34 AM

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  • by rrodby,

    rrodby rrodby Jan 12, 2014 8:45 AM in response to James A. Weston
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    Jan 12, 2014 8:45 AM in response to James A. Weston

    I'm going to reintitate this thread, maybe someone at APPLE wil read it. BTTM same problem since Mavericks.

    RIght now in my office away from home I have a mid 2012 retina MBP and a late 2012 iMac right next to each other, and a mid 2013 iMac at my home, both computers in office are on WiFi wireless. same network.

     

    The MBP BTTM works fine to connect to iMac at home.

    The iMac right next to the MBP will not BTTM connect to iMac at HOme, giving the "iCloud server not responding" message in the iCLoud preferences in system preferences.

    The iMac at home connects to the MBP at work

     

    this used to work fine with iMac at work, so it , like others, seems to be MAvericks related, but only on one computer!

     

     

    All have Mavericks. All updated etc. Same sharing preferences.

     

    Lets fix this APple!

     

    roger

  • by John Galt,

    John Galt John Galt Jan 12, 2014 9:00 AM in response to rrodby
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    Jan 12, 2014 9:00 AM in response to rrodby

    rrodby wrote:

     

    I'm going to reintitate this thread,

     

    Hi rrodby

     

    1. There is no such thing as "reinitiating" a thread
    2. Apple does not participate here
    3. They already know about it
    4. It will be fixed in a future update.
  • by rrodby,

    rrodby rrodby Jan 12, 2014 9:06 AM in response to John Galt
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    Jan 12, 2014 9:06 AM in response to John Galt

    John,

     

    While I know they don't officially "participate", I used to contribute a lot to a certain "Support Community" years ago and they communicated once or twice directly to me, so I kinda figured it was monitored somehow. So I thought by telling my story it might get seen again, the squeeky wheel gets the oil.

     

    regardless, I'm hopeful with future update, being able to access my work compiuter at home and vise versa is such a help for me.

     

    thank you

     

    roger

  • by redradier81,

    redradier81 redradier81 Jan 28, 2014 9:56 AM in response to John Galt
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    Jan 28, 2014 9:56 AM in response to John Galt

    how can i roll back my imac to 10.8.5 id rather do that and wait instead of mavericks

  • by Vincent Lubet,Solvedanswer

    Vincent Lubet Vincent Lubet Jan 31, 2014 11:20 AM in response to Mitch 751
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    Jan 31, 2014 11:20 AM in response to Mitch 751

    Back To My Mac and some VPN clients will fail on OS X 10.9 Maverick if the "Broadband Tuner" was previously installed. This failure happens because the Broadband Tuner sets some system parameters that are too low for Maverick.

     

     

    To fix this problem, please uninstall the Broadband Tuner using the installer that can be downloaded at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL420

     

     

    Note that you may have to override your security settings to open the installer because it was created a long time ago before developer ID registration began:

    - In the Finder, locate the BroadbandTuner.dmg and open it to show its content

    - Press the Control key, then click the BroadbandTuner.mpkg icon.

    - Choose Open from the shortcut menu.

    - Click Open and proceed with the installation

     

     

    You need to restart the system to apply the changes.

     

     

    A final note: the “Broadband Tuner" is uninstalled when either:

    - The file /etc/sysctl.conf does not exists at all

    - The file /etc/sysctl.conf exists but does not contain the following lines:

    #

    # Tuning network for broadband

    #

    # START

    kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=512000

    net.inet.tcp.sendspace=131072

    net.inet.tcp.recvspace=358400

    # END

  • by EvanTofPGH,

    EvanTofPGH EvanTofPGH Jan 31, 2014 11:35 AM in response to Vincent Lubet
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    Jan 31, 2014 11:35 AM in response to Vincent Lubet

    IT IS FINALLY FIXED AND MYSTERY SOLVED!!!!!!!!!

     

    This was it. I installed Broadband Tuner in November and have not been able to access Back to My Mac since. I did not make the connection as Broadband Tuner came up as a suggestion for some other issue and I clicked on it. Don't really remember the details.

     

    Anyhow, I ran the installer again, which by default uninstalles it if it is installed (looking under customize) and rebooted. Everything is working again as simple as that.

     

    Thank you so much. I have a host of family and relatives I support with BTM and we have had to rely on the old iChat screen sharing through messages ever since.

  • by John Vestal1,Helpful

    John Vestal1 John Vestal1 Jan 31, 2014 11:41 AM in response to Vincent Lubet
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    Jan 31, 2014 11:41 AM in response to Vincent Lubet

    Folks,

     

        Vincent found it. The quick way to fix this is go into the terminal in an administrator account and type:

     

    sudo mv /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/sysctl.conf.bad

     

        Then reboot. That should solve your BTMM issues with the server not responding.

     

    John

  • by Joe Borzellino,

    Joe Borzellino Joe Borzellino Jan 31, 2014 12:44 PM in response to Vincent Lubet
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    Jan 31, 2014 12:44 PM in response to Vincent Lubet

    This fixed it for me as well. The icloud server not repsonding message has disappeared! I tried everything I could think of to fix this and would have never found this on my own.

     

    Thank you!

  • by John Vestal1,Helpful

    John Vestal1 John Vestal1 Jan 31, 2014 12:50 PM in response to Mitch 751
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    Jan 31, 2014 12:50 PM in response to Mitch 751

    Mitch,

     

         Check out Vincent's recent post.  That should fix it.  Also, please mark his post as the correct answer to help his standing.

     

    John

  • by AnosH,

    AnosH AnosH Jan 31, 2014 2:29 PM in response to John Vestal1
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    Jan 31, 2014 2:29 PM in response to John Vestal1

    No joy here. Issueing the command generates this response:

     

    mv: rename /etc/sysctl.conf to /etc/sysctl.conf.bad: No such file or directory

     

    Never had this Broadband tuner installed. There's no sysctl.conf file to be found.

    And I still get the "iCloud server not responding message".

     

    Recently i've installed "Jump Desktop", which uses Google accounts to get computers to connect to each other. Works like a charm, allthough it doesn't wake up sleeping iMacs. Bonus feature: you get to control your mac from your iPad and iPhone.

  • by rdenton,

    rdenton rdenton Jan 31, 2014 2:33 PM in response to EvanTofPGH
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    Jan 31, 2014 2:33 PM in response to EvanTofPGH

    Oh my golly!

     

    This has fixed the error message. Next time I am away from home I'll test it out. So very cool if this is the end.

     

    thank you for posting,

  • by rrodby,

    rrodby rrodby Jan 31, 2014 2:50 PM in response to Vincent Lubet
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    Jan 31, 2014 2:50 PM in response to Vincent Lubet

    At the risk of being made fun of, OMG OMG OMG.

    That did it.

    Thank you So much.

    While I don't use BTTM that much, when i need it i NEED it.

     

    It is worth noting that to get to the un-installer you have to download the file from Vincent's link above, you will get BroadbandTuner.dmg  Click on it and you get the installer Broadband Tuner, which opens up the file BroadbandTuner.mpkg. From there you need to right click  -> show package contents -> Contents -> Packages-> BroadbandTunerUninstaller.pkg. Right click on this click on it to Open it,  the rest is straight forward, run the program, then reboot and

     

    yippe.

     

    thank you so much Vincent!

     

    roger

  • by network,

    network network Jan 31, 2014 2:59 PM in response to rrodby
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    Jan 31, 2014 2:59 PM in response to rrodby

    Finally.  Thank you!

  • by JTSherman,

    JTSherman JTSherman Jan 31, 2014 3:19 PM in response to network
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    Jan 31, 2014 3:19 PM in response to network

    It worked mostly!!

     

    I can screen share, despite the fact that it won't let me log in with my Name and Password -- which I know are correct.  I also am unable to connect to show just the files, without doing a screen share.

     

    Any ideas what tweak I might need to do?

     

    Thanks so much,

     

    Jon

  • by jfreer,

    jfreer jfreer Jan 31, 2014 4:01 PM in response to JTSherman
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    Jan 31, 2014 4:01 PM in response to JTSherman

    Uninstalling Broadband Tuner worked for me.  I can access files and screen share.  Thank you very much!

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