i have two macs about 5 miles apart, both are signed in ti iCloud, both have Back to my Mac enabled, the one I want to access is set to wake for Wifi purposes.
How can send the wake signal and then access the Mac?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 2.3GHz, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM,
Wake on LAN uses a 'magic packet'. The packet itself doesn't cross the internet.
You need a device at the other end to send the magic packet for you. An Apple Airport should handle this as part of the bonjour sleep proxy…
About Wake on Demand and Bonjour Sleep Proxy - Apple Support
If you don't have an Airport you will need to configure a router or other device to do the wake on LAN for you.
Thanks for your reply, I read the article but it doesn't quite spell it out for me unfortunately. the remote Mac is on a wifi LAN operated by a router, there is also a Time Capsule in the network. Do I need to programme the TC in some way before the remote mac will show in Finder?
Did you see the link in the article to more info about BTMM?
Set up and use Back to My Mac - Apple Support
The router needs to have UPnP or NAT/PMP active & both Macs need to be signed in. It also looks like the airport base station needs setup (or maybe the Time Capsule in your case).
I did but it sounded like WLAN access not over the internet. Maybe I need to go into the office and set the Time Capsule like it says?
I'm afraid it sounds like that may need checking.
It's painful to set this up on your own, you need someone at the other end to boss around to wake up Macs whilst you check settings etc 🙂
I tend to make both ends stay awake whilst I check that they work before trusting them to be woken from sleep on the network. Check your router is allowing UPnP NAT/PMPso you can contact from both ends too.
Thanks very much for your help here,
Do you know how I can check my Time Capsule firmware? I looked on the firmware download site but the latest one there is for Mavericks. Looking at the TC in the system report it doesn't seem to include the firmware
I'm afraid I don't know that but Apple has this that may cover it…
yes a useful article, I can see that my home TC firmware is up to date, so I set up Back to my Mac here to connect within the house using wifi. I'll try setting up the office TC tomoro using Airport Utility, and see if I can get remote access to work :-)
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