here is the situation....
i have a TC at home and i want to stream or send files to it from over my parents house over the internet.
how can i do this ?? plzz helppp
P.S...(i dont have a laptop at home, i use my brothers mac at my parents house....)
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
That is not possible.
But i heard of people talking about NAT, ports, etc... It could be done
That's for local networks and routers.
i have the same issue, i read that there is a way using the option "back to my mac" usine iCloud, but i couldn't connect to it did any one have succeed to configure it?
Back to My Mac is a way of accessing your computer remotely via VNC. It is not an access to the Time Capsule. You can transfer something to the computer that will in turn get backed up to your Time Capsule if it's running. Likewise, you can restore files to your computer from the Time Capsule. This is not direct access to the Time Capsule. The Time Capsule is still just a network storage device attached to your home network.
If you use BTMM to access your computer remotely, then you probably have no need to access the Time Capsule. Also, because you are using the Internet, both your connection speed as well as whether you use Wi-Fi or Ethernet will determine the rate of data transfer.
Mac OS X 10.7 Help- Share your computer’s screen using Back to My Mac
Mac OS X 10.7 Help- Use Back to My Mac
OS X- Using and troubleshooting Back to My Mac with your iCloud account
Setting up and using Back to My Mac with AirPort Express, Extreme or Time Capsule
You can access files on the TC or a USB disk on AE from BTMM.
It is clearly stated in the document you mentioned.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3486??
You put your Apple ID into the TC.. and you can link to it remotely and access files you place there.
Streaming over the internet is not a great idea.. and apple says not to use it for remote TM backup.. but it can access the TC.
Ybihi wrote:
i have the same issue, i read that there is a way using the option "back to my mac" usine iCloud, but i couldn't connect to it did any one have succeed to configure it?
Is the TC the main router in the network.. This will not work with the TC bridged. And it will not work with double NAT. You must have the TC as the one and only router in the network.
There are of course plenty of people struggling to get anything like this to work. Much depends on your ISP.
The document above explains how to setup the TC.
Thanks LaPastenague, it was really helpful at least now it appears in my finder/Shared but now it failed to connect. any idea.
There are many many things that can go wrong.
Try a different method.. direct AFP is the best. But please make sure you have all the BTMM icloud stuff correct because it is the easiest.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3413
If you are testing from WAN location.. which you must,, then you have to have full access via a public IP and no firewall blocking you. If you test with anything else.. and in any other way it won't work. You must have public IP, not private IP on the router. Many ISP cheat and use private IP. You must have no firewall in the router.
Even getting BTMM working is much easier with knowledge of the public IP on the WAN of the TC. See some of the other people with the same issues.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3699096?start=0&tstart=0
finally it works only with port mapping, as i can't disable NAT from the SIP fiber router.
I think apple should to make it more transparent and simpler as they use to do, to remove this headache. I had linksys EA4500 before easy to use with smart wifi manageable from WAN and with possibility to share a USB HD.
I hope next firmware release will remove this complexity.
Access to Time Capsule!!!!
