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capricorn54 Author

Level 1

11 points

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

65 replies

Aug 17, 2016 3:26 PM in response to xKryptonian

You are welcome. 🙂

Aug 18, 2016 4:22 AM in response to MurgenTemplar

My AirPort TC 2TB is working again as before! The 'back to my Mac' option can be used again without causing errors and without cancelling out the remote WAN data-share of the internal disk and the remote WAN Time Machine backups. Everything seems to be running stable - what a relief...

renowden

Level 1

8 points

Aug 18, 2016 4:23 AM in response to Cro-nelis

So presumably it was a problem with the server end of iCloud as theer have been no firmware/software updates. Do you think we will get any announcement/apology?

Aug 18, 2016 4:44 AM in response to renowden

At least some brief info for dummies about the problem would be nice. An apology would be a surprise.

But maybe it's announced somewhere - who knows?

Last Wednesday there was something announced in general here http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Can't find anything more specific though.

Aug 18, 2016 5:07 AM in response to Cro-nelis

Ooh, last Tuesday there was something announced here too http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Multiple iCloud Services - 0.06% of users were affected

That could be us, the AirPort owners.

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