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Re: Why to pay for .Mac ......
Well that's pretty cool, I guess.
I can't get Back To My Mac to work inside my house across the LAN, let alone outside the house across the internet. I'm not even interested in using it outside the house across the internet. I'm just interested in using it inside the house so I don't have to go upstairs when I'm feeling lazy and want to get to stuff on my iMac. After looking at the support forums on the Apple web site I'm apparently not the only one with this problem. I've gone though all the tips and troubleshooting info I could find, and it still won't work for me. |
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Thinkdiff
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| I seem to remember you making a thread about this before. BTMM is not for local networks. You can just use the built in File Sharing and Screen Sharing options and the computer will show up in the SHARED section of the Finder window. If you have both of those turned on (and the Finder preferences set to show shared computers) and it's still not working, check if you have any firewalls installed on your computer. Also turn off Back To My Mac and reboot both computers. If that's still not working, you may have a strange router that's not passing data properly between the two computers or the two computers are on a different subnet. |
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May 9th, @03:20PM
| said by Thinkdiff  :I seem to remember you making a thread about this before. BTMM is not for local networks. You can just use the built in File Sharing and Screen Sharing options and the computer will show up in the SHARED section of the Finder window. If you have both of those turned on (and the Finder preferences set to show shared computers) and it's still not working, check if you have any firewalls installed on your computer. Also turn off Back To My Mac and reboot both computers. If that's still not working, you may have a strange router that's not passing data properly between the two computers or the two computers are on a different subnet. File Sharing and Screen Sharing are both turned on. I've tried with BTMM on and off. I've logged in and out of .Mac. The OS X firewall is totally off on all machines. I've rebooted numerous times. I've given my iMac a static IP address on my network. BTMM doesn't work for me over the LAN or across the internet. I've never been able to get my iMac to show up in the SHARED section of the Finder window. Nothing I've tried has worked. My router is an AirPort Extreme that I got back in December, and it has the latest firmware and whatnot. The only thing that shows up in the SHARED section of the Finder window is my Buffalo NAS. |
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Thinkdiff
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| Can you connect to the iMac from the other computer by manually putting in the IP at the connect to server dialog box?
Are the router and subnet IP addresses the same on both machines?
Don't want to hijack this thread anymore than it already is, so if you want to continue trying to diagnose the problem, send me a PM or restart the old thread.  |
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scots
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Raleigh, NC | The static IP is handed out via the router rather than hardcoded into the iMac, so router/subnet info should be the same on all machines. I'm at work right now, so can't really do any troubleshooting. Will get back with you later on this. Thanks! |
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