Share Airport Disk over WAN via iCloud

Don't you know which port I should check if it blocked or not?

i would like to know how can you connect back to you airport extreme from outside youre house like at work or another province or state ?

i have a bell router connected to the internet and then i have the extreme connected throught dhcp i believe could this be my issue ?

You need an iCloud account. Enter the iCloud account name and password in the Back to my Mac settings on your Airport Extreme or Time Capsule. See my screen shot above.

Once you've done that any disks attached to the Airport Extreme or internal disks on a Time Capsule can be accessed from outside your home network. They will show up on the side bar of the Finder no matter where you are as long as you have a connection to the Internet.

i have done so but i am still unable to view it.

will it show up the same way as it would if i am inside my network ? or will i need to use idisk ?

also will my router need to be dhcp through my modem as the modem needs to be the primary

or will i also need to setup a my extreme with my ppoe info aswell ?

iDisk was strictly a MobileMe feature it has nothing to do with what we are trying to do here.

In my case my Airport router is making the PPPoE connection so that could be the difference but I want you to check one other thing first.

In Finder preferences make sure that Back to My Mac has a check mark next to it.

done so still no signs of help i will have to reconnect my router and modem and setup ppoe on my router and see if that helps

fariswheel, you should also know that Back to My Mac also requires that the routers you are connecting to while you are away from your local network must support UPnP or NAT-PMP and that feature must be enabled in the router. With that in mind you may find that Back to My Mac does not always work when connected to some other routers and networks. Also, certain firewall settings on other networks may prevent Back to My Mac from not working.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1552

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4907

thanks for the help and the links

i will go ahead and attempt to make a PPOE connection and see if those resolves the issue or not and hopefully we can get this up and running asap

thank you again ill get back to you soon

okay so i went ahead and reconfigured my router as the PPOE connector and i am able to view it on the side of my finder.

but i get an error when attempting to connect from a friends place.

do i have to configure anything for this to work ?

What is the error message you are getting?

I did not have to configure anything special, other than what has already been discussed in this thread, to get it to work.

i get connection failed, after like 5 mins of attempting to connect,

i am unable to modify what username its using to connect, could this be an issue, should i create a username and password that matches my mac ?

So i finally got it to work but toke me an hour or so after reattempt to connect finally it connected

but i rebooted then i the same thing happened the same error message as pictured above

Hi

I have one problem thta would be dificult to solve. With my old internet proveder, I did'nt have any problems with sharing my disk connected to my Airport extreme. But with a new internet provider, I have to use other Router that do the DHCP and olther stuff. The solution was connect my airport via ethernet and use it in "brigde mode". This soluction works well, but, when I connect outside, I only see my iMac. So my question is, anyone knows the protocol or port that we need for use to share the disk?

Thanks

I believe this article will help you. Or this article.