Access Time Capsule remotely

You have to port forward, and you will not find it easy at the uni end or work end as they may simply firewall those ports.. if your uni is standard uni then for security of their computers you cannot access anything and everything on the web. Same in work place. You can have it setup perfectly at home and it will not work due to port blocking at the other end.

The sites you have read have all the info you need. Try it from a friends place where the router is not going to block the ports and have a go.. better yet, do it at home yourself using a dialup or 3g modem. Remember the firewall in your home router must be off. The ports forwarded to the correct network IP. If it still blocks you try the router DMZ.

Also ensure you do not have a double NAT. ie the broadband modem is routing as well as the TC. It will never work if that is the case. You must bridge one or the other.

I just read in another thread quoting an Apple tech, that iCloud has disabled TC and AEBS ability to use BTMM and access either the internal disk on a TC or an external connected to a TC or AEBS. This along with ending BTMM for computers no upgradable to Lion and iCloud.

I've used this for years, with moble.me and it still works local network, as do computers still running SL. But the TC no longer shows up when I'm connecting through the WEB, neither do non-lion/icloud computers.

Yes there are ways around this but it was an astoundingly easy way to have a personal cloud storage and for me that was worth the price of mobile.me.

mldixon wrote:

Yes there are ways around this but it was an astoundingly easy way to have a personal cloud storage and for me that was worth the price of mobile.me.

No use crying although I imagine many would really like to.. you have to say with Apple when they decide to do something, they do it no matter the outcry. The idea is to have everything in the cloud, rather than on person disks at home.. so access becomes easy from anywhere and everywhere. The philosophy is understandable.. the means by which they get people over the line somewhat lacking ... !!

roelandnas wrote:

Thanks for making an effort. Allow me to clarify some things. There are two situations

Clarification is always good.

My answer was probably somewhat generic.. and I was not thinking of exactly how the TC would be setup.

Your home to work TC-Y is the place to start.

I probably cannot remotely solve the problem.. so you will need to see what you can do about it. And I will need to play a bit myself to see exactly how the hard disk faces the WAN side. I know you can tick the allow bonjour access from WAN, and I hope that is enough, otherwise you should bridge the modem and run pppoe client on the TC.. as long as your ISP allows that.

Do you have a static IP or using a dns service to access your work network from home. I strongly believe in testing if you really have access to work network or not, so perhaps test using remote connection to a computer there and see if that works. Or even just to get ping response. Can you turn on ping responder in the modem if you leave it in router mode. It makes it so much easier if work and home are near to each other.. that is why I suggested doing it via a secondary internet connection from home as there can be so many things to try it is a pain unless you have someone in the work situation you can get to make alterations.. and how this affects people at work.

I am not sure if you have considered but really transferring info via AFP over internet is far from safe. The correct way to do this is vpn. Where in the past I would do things with ftp, or secure ftp, nowadays I just do it with vpn. Really vpn is a far better solution and not that much money to get suitable hardware.. and yes, do it by hardware vpn routers at least at the work end.

I will have a play and see what might be blocking yours. This will probably take 24hours.

Sorry for this question but I am more a fixer of TC's than an expert in forums.. is there a PM to different users available here.

To roelandnas you can find my email via the website.. I am top repairer.. at least I created the website so I get to be top dog.

Email me and I can open my TC to access to you.. and we can have a bit of play.

Well it would be nice if they had at least prepaerd a landing pad when they push people over the line. Have you perchance seen how nicely Pages/Numbers play nice between iOS and MacOS versions. Sure they sync automaticly from you iOS to iCloud and thus a folder on you Mac. Too bad to use them not oly are they reformated but you have to go through the web site to up load them and down load them on the Mac side of things. Yes so much easier than putting the new copy in a folder and deleting the old copy - oh what you now still have to do that with iCloud. Its sort of the worst of both world of cloud computing - restricted and not automatic in a productive way. I'd say iCloud is the first real could computing failure. It looks to almost as bad a eWorld.