niklas115

Q: Access Time Capsule from another location

My Time Capsule works well in my WiFi at home with both automatic backup of my Macbook Pro and to save large files on.  What are the setting i need to add to be able to access the files from another WiFi system away from home?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Aug 30, 2014 11:21 PM

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  • by LaPastenague,

    LaPastenague LaPastenague Aug 31, 2014 12:41 AM in response to niklas115
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    Aug 31, 2014 12:41 AM in response to niklas115

    BTMM and iCloud are the apple recognised way of doing it.

     

    Set up and use Back to My Mac

  • by niklas115,

    niklas115 niklas115 Aug 31, 2014 3:33 AM in response to LaPastenague
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    Aug 31, 2014 3:33 AM in response to LaPastenague

    Thank you for this. I have enabled the BTMM and in the iCloud. But when i try to access from an external WiFi i only get "connection failed" through the Finder when i press the TC in the side menu.  Have i missed something obvious? enter an IP address or so..?

  • by LaPastenague,

    LaPastenague LaPastenague Aug 31, 2014 5:08 AM in response to niklas115
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    Aug 31, 2014 5:08 AM in response to niklas115

    There is a lot of setup involved..

     

    The TC must be the main router of the network.. it cannot be bridged.

     

    The wifi network you are attached to remotely must give you a full public access IP address. Find the public IP of the TC and see if you can then access it.

     

    Do not ever expect this sort of thing to be completely straight forward.

     

    Read the many many posts about remote access. There are different methods if BTMM doesn't work.

     

    See AirPort

     

    Remote access article as a starting point.