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TC no longer a part of my network but my wifi network is still working, mostly. What has happened?

Up until last evening I was able to see and edit my TC through the airport utility on my MBP or my iPad Air 2. Now I have received a message in airport utility that says my TC is no longer part of my network and is no longer accessible.


The time machine backup drive on the TC is no longer seen by time machine. I can SMB into the TC HDD through Finder and the folders and data appear to be intact.


Now the question is what has happened to my TC and the airport utility? All help is most welcome. I am running OS X el Capitan 10.11.6 on my MBP and iOS 9.3.4 on my iPad Air 2.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Aug 12, 2016 11:05 PM

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Aug 17, 2016 1:12 AM in response to capricorn54

I am able to resolve the issue with the workarounds suggested however, the problem does return.


If like me, you have run out of patience with work a rounds. The best solution is to rollback to v7.7.3 and wait to for the Apple version upgrade that is sure to fix this.


There is an article in the support forums on how to rollback the version, very easy and takes a few minutes.

Aug 17, 2016 3:43 AM in response to MurgenTemplar

I did contact the Dutch Apple Support team by phone. The were completely clueless and had no idea at all what was going on and only had ill-advice and no solution.....

The option to disable the 'back to my Mac' to get the TC going is a bit of a poor man solution because from that point on the TC's internal disk is only good for LAN share. Now the problem is that the WAN share of the TC internal disk isn't working anymore. So remote WAN data access and WAN Time Machine backups aren't working.

TC no longer a part of my network but my wifi network is still working, mostly. What has happened?

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