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How is it that I can connect to my office machine (late 2104 iMac) via Back To My Mac from my MacBook when I am a few rooms away, but not when I travel further afield?

Many thanks

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Feb 8, 2018 12:27 AM

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Posted on Feb 8, 2018 8:20 AM

You'll have to talk to the office people in charge of the network about possible double NAT situations, and/or proper configuration of uPnP across the network. Make sure that the TCP or UDP ports used by Back to My Mac are open on your firewall.

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Feb 24, 2018 6:45 AM in response to jezinio

Hi

I feel I'm getting closer to at least identifying the problem. I have placed another Mac in my office, using the same wifi network and I can connect to this machine via BTMM, so I feel the problem lies with the host machine.

Are there any settings on this the iMac I may have wrong, bearing in mind i can access this machine via BTMM when I'm in the same locality, but not when I'm further away and connecting using a different network.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Feb 25, 2018 12:40 AM in response to jezinio

I feel I am getting a little closer to identifying the problem with my BTMM. I set up another iMac in my office, using the same network as the 'problem' machine and could connect to this fine. So it seems the problem lies with the host machine . I can connect to it when I'm in the locality but not when I move further away and have to use a different network. So, there must be a setting on the host machine which is blocking connections from different networks?

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