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Q: Problems using 'Back to my Mac' with Yosemite

At home I have two Macs, an iMac and a MacBook, both running Mavericks. At work I use a MacBook Pro, also running Mavericks, and when I'm out I use a MacBook Air that was running developer preview of Yosemite.

 

My home iMac has now been upgraded to Yosemite. However when at work using my Mavericks MacBook I can no longer use 'Back to my Mac' to screen share back to my iMac, I get "Connection failed to "Conor's iMac", but I can still connect to the MacBook at home running Mavericks. I've also tried connecting to both Macs at home using my Yosemite MacBook Air but I get the same error.

 

I can screen share between all Mac when they are on the local network, but as soon as I'm using iCloud to screen share the only connection I can make is between Macs running Mavericks. It's almost as if 'Back to my Mac' via iCloud is broken in Yosemite.

 

I've tried disabling and reenabling 'Back to my Mac', signing out of iCloud entirely and then logging in again, but nothing I've tried so far will allow me to use iCloud to screen share between two Yosemite Macs.

 

Has anyone else seen this issue, or have any suggestions?

Posted on Oct 21, 2014 12:54 PM

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  • by RaceTripper,

    RaceTripper RaceTripper Jan 26, 2015 7:10 PM in response to mrbofus
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    Jan 26, 2015 7:10 PM in response to mrbofus

    OK. I understand now. You may be right.

     

    I had a conversation with some other developers in my office today, all using Yosemite. We all agreed this is the worst OS release we can remember. And I have been using Macs since 1986.

  • by mrbofus,

    mrbofus mrbofus Jan 26, 2015 7:14 PM in response to RaceTripper
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    Jan 26, 2015 7:14 PM in response to RaceTripper

    With Yosemite and iOS 8, it feels like a one-step-forward-two-steps-back kind of situation for both OS releases.  For me, with Yosemite it's the BTMM issue and for iOS 8, it's the syncing photos from computers randomizes photos on device issue that are the two biggest problems.  But there are definitely smaller bugs here and there that surprise me in terms of making it through Apple's QA testing.

  • by RaceTripper,

    RaceTripper RaceTripper Jan 26, 2015 7:22 PM in response to mrbofus
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    Jan 26, 2015 7:22 PM in response to mrbofus

    I think Apple changed their QA. Now for "QA Team" it says "see "Customers"

  • by Jpmilligan,

    Jpmilligan Jpmilligan Jan 27, 2015 8:12 AM in response to Conor.P.M
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    Jan 27, 2015 8:12 AM in response to Conor.P.M

    Hey all, If you need to use BTMM like i need to for working from home; there is a work around and it is the only one that has worked for me. Hopefully you have a backup of your Mac from when you had Mavericks loaded (If you don't, I think there is a way to revert back, just google it). All you have to do is restore your Mac to that backup. My laptop is currently running Mavericks and I am able to connect and screen-share with my iMac at work that is running Yosemite. Hope this helps!

  • by mrbofus,

    mrbofus mrbofus Jan 27, 2015 2:57 PM in response to mrbofus
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    Jan 27, 2015 2:57 PM in response to mrbofus

    10.10.2 is out; if anyone has the chance to test that with BTMM to see if it fixed anything (I kind of doubt it since I didn't see anything in the release notes about BTMM), please report back and let us know.

  • by ik8sqi2,

    ik8sqi2 ik8sqi2 Jan 28, 2015 7:44 AM in response to mrbofus
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    Jan 28, 2015 7:44 AM in response to mrbofus

    Status update - It seems that as long as both Macs have been updated to 10.10.2 so far BTMM is now working. I have 4 remote Macs. My Mac and two of the remote ones have been updated to 10.2.2. I can now use BTMM with those updated ones. I am still unable to remote into the two running the older 10.10.1.

  • by dave186,

    dave186 dave186 Jan 28, 2015 7:46 AM in response to ik8sqi2
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    Jan 28, 2015 7:46 AM in response to ik8sqi2

    I really don't believe it.  10.10.2 works.  Really works.  upgraded all my machines.  and btmm once again works.

     

    Looked at the discoveryd process  (in /usr/libexec).  Its about twice as big as it was.

     

    I suspect they threw some of their good programmers at it.

  • by RaceTripper,

    RaceTripper RaceTripper Jan 28, 2015 7:59 AM in response to dave186
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    Jan 28, 2015 7:59 AM in response to dave186

    Still broken for me.

     

    Last night I could connect between my MBP and Mini when both were on the same LAN (but that worked before). This morning I am at my office. I can see my Mini at home listed, but it refuses a connection. My configuration (security, permissions, etc) otherwise is still the same as it was when it worked under Mavericks.

     

    On the bright side, WindowServer has stopped crashing on me every couple of days (fixed with 10.10.2 beta).

  • by El Morche,

    El Morche El Morche Jan 28, 2015 8:46 AM in response to RaceTripper
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    Jan 28, 2015 8:46 AM in response to RaceTripper

    It is still broken for me as well.

     

    I can now see my Mac Mini but can only establish a connection when it is awake - nothing when it is asleep.

  • by RaceTripper,

    RaceTripper RaceTripper Jan 28, 2015 8:48 AM in response to El Morche
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    Jan 28, 2015 8:48 AM in response to El Morche

    Sleep doesn't even matter for me. My Mini is set to never sleep. Only the monitor sleeps.

  • by Brian S. Campbell,

    Brian S. Campbell Brian S. Campbell Jan 28, 2015 2:08 PM in response to Conor.P.M
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    Jan 28, 2015 2:08 PM in response to Conor.P.M

    Wow. This is getting extremely frustrating. Still broken for me as well. Yosemite has been a real garbage release in my experience. I've never had so many frustrating issues to try to work around. I just hope it's not the new "normal".

  • by David Bruce,

    David Bruce David Bruce Jan 29, 2015 6:55 PM in response to Conor.P.M
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    Jan 29, 2015 6:55 PM in response to Conor.P.M

    Yesterday after updating both Macs to 10.10.2, BTMM was working great over the internet to a Mac in another state. Screen sharing, file sharing all looked good. I thought it was smooth sailing from here on.

     

    Today, however, my remote Mac is no longer showing in the Finder sidebar. Not good.

     

    A frustrating part for me about this is that the remote site Airport has always been visible in Airport Utility as "Other WiFi Devices". The Mac I'm trying to see with BTMM is using this WiFi, but it is not visible in Finder.

     

    I think it's Back to the Drawing Board instead of Back to My Mac.  Any tips or hints would be appreciated.

  • by rogerloop,

    rogerloop rogerloop Jan 30, 2015 3:46 AM in response to Conor.P.M
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    Jan 30, 2015 3:46 AM in response to Conor.P.M

    Hi, thank you for this discussion.

    I followed from the beginning but and I've talked many times with apple support team and I've sent many information and screenshots of my BTMM problems and they've not given any solution or right answer to the BTMM problem. Waiting long time for the 10.2.2 update in order to solve the problem, but it doesn't work BTMM after this updated.

    For me the most frustrating thing is that sometimes works BTMM and sometimes doesn't work, without any configuration change and without any reason.

     

    I'll tried many configurations on 3 macs permanently placed in 3 diferent locations, they are behind 3 Time Capsule, wich control all LAN parameters, the movistar router is just the gateway.

     

    The most courious is that BTMM most of the times works to enter remotely to my diferent Time Capsule hard disks, but either the macs behind the TimeCapsule doesn't appear at the finder....

     

    Five months after Yosemiti Apple should solved this problem....


    With Mavericks works all this pretty well and I did not any change on Lan configurations just apply all updates to all my macs to 10.2.2


    Thanks for your support and sorry for my english, I'm catalan speaker from Barcelona (Catalunya)


    Equipment:

    MBP 15 Mid 2009

    iMac 27" 2010

    Mac Mini 2012

     

  • by El Morche,

    El Morche El Morche Jan 30, 2015 9:44 AM in response to rogerloop
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    Jan 30, 2015 9:44 AM in response to rogerloop

    Not only has 10.10.2 not fixed BTMM it seems to have broken local file/screen sharing - but only on my 2014 Mac Mini. When it goes to sleep it disappears off the Finder Sidebar under Shared on my MacBook and MacBook Air. When it is awakened it reappears. My MacBook and MacBook Air still function as normal so it only the Mac Mini that is affected.

  • by simonwt1,

    simonwt1 simonwt1 Feb 2, 2015 11:54 AM in response to Conor.P.M
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    Feb 2, 2015 11:54 AM in response to Conor.P.M

    Adding my voice to this noise.   BTMM worked for me on 10.10.1 - for one day.   BTMM also worked for me on 10.10.2after upgrading both machines - for one day.   Works fine for all machines inside my company network (where I can walk over to each machine any time I like so I don't need BTMM), but the fails are when using BTMM over the internet, which is essential to work remotely.  Used to work great until Mavericks, when it became flaky but could get it to run.   Fell over completely with Yosemite.  The fact that it has worked for one day at a time after each new update indicates that my setup is perfectly OK, and it is APPLE that is to blame...

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