Back to My Mac is an iCloud include that turns out to be fantastically useful when you are working remotely from your office and need to complete something, or to help investigate another person’s machine. The component gives you a chance to associate with your Mac, AirPort Disk or Time Capsule utilizing the Internet or another Mac.
When you associate with your home Mac from a remote Mac you can duplicate files (and essentially do anything you get a kick out of the chance to those files between the two machines. You can likewise observe a live form of the screen on the Mac you are getting to from the Mac you use, and can likewise control it as though you were utilizing the PC. This stretches out to running applications on the workplace/home despite the fact that you don’t have these introduced on the Mac you use to access Back to My Mac. At long last you can change Settings on your AirPort Disk or Time Capsule with AirPort Utility 6.3 or later. (Air terminal Base Stations shuld be running firmware form 7.6.1 or later to support Back to My Mac).
Back To My Mac is useful to anybody requiring files they don’t have with them who would prefer not to use open file sharing administrations (secret files, monetary information, and so on). It’s likewise useful to those who need to get to a specific application they don’t have introduced on their present Mac. Understudies make use of this to get to heavy accumulations of research information remotely. In the event that you use the component what do you use it for?
Enable Back to My Mac
To set up and use Back to My Mac, you require these things:
- At least two Mac PCs that are utilizing the same iCloud account on OS X Lion v10.7.5 or later.
- An AirPort base station (AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express, or AirPort Time Capsule) or other Internet switch that supports UPnP or NAT-PMP, with the most recent accessible firmware. Airplane terminal base stations require firmware variant 7.6.1 or later for Back to My Mac.
- Airplane terminal Utility 6.3 or later.
- For screen sharing, a 300-Kbps-or-quicker, bi-directional (up/down) Internet association between PCs. You may have the capacity to use file sharing with slower associations. In the event that file sharing isn’t working like you expect, check your settings and associations.
- A firewall that permits remote associations. A few firewalls may keep sure Back to My Mac associations. For instance, when you’re at home, you won’t not have the capacity to associate with your Mac at work. However, when you’re grinding away, you may have the capacity to associate with your Mac at home. In the event that you aren’t sure if the firewall will permit Back to My Mac associations, check with your association’s system head.
In the event that you need to use an AirPort Extreme or AirPort Time Capsule to get to files on an outside hard drive, you require a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) organized USB hard drive. When you use it with Back to My Mac, your hard drive will show up as the base station under Shared in the Finder sidebar.
Activate File and Screen Sharing
Back to My Mac enables you to share a Mac’s files and screen. This lets you remotely get to any single file on your Mac, or use “screen sharing” to remote-desktop on your Mac and use it as though you were sitting before it.
To use these highlights, you’ll have to guarantee both File Sharing and Screen Sharing are turned-on on a Mac. From the System Preferences menu, tap the Sharing symbol and enable Screen Sharing and File Sharing. You’ll have to do this on every Mac you need to remotely get to through Back to My Mac.
Configuration SETUp
For best availability and most extreme execution, Apple suggests you enable the UPnP or NAT-PMP includes on your switch. This enables your Mac to naturally forward the ports it requires for network.
Remote Access to Mac’s Files and Screen
Using Back to My Mac, Screen Sharing and File Sharing enabled, you should now have the capacity to remotely associate with your Mac. Sign into another Mac computer with the same iCloud account you used to sign into the primary Mac you set up. You can do this from anyplace on the planet as long as you have an Internet association.
When you open the Finder, you’ll see every one of the Macs you’ve marked into and enabled Back to My Mac on under Shared in the sidebar. Snap a Mac’s name to get to its files — you can peruse its whole drive and get any file from the Finder window.