Talk:Back to My Mac

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Back To My Mac does not allow only Remote Desktop (VNC-like) connection but is a group of protocols designed to allow remote access to a machine from anywhere. The issue is that the articles written by Macworld are also factually wrong, which does not help.

The article should be re-written with actual facts regarding BTMM (http://www.apple.com/dotmac/backtomymac.html is a beginning, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306852 could also help).

Guillaumegete (talk) 14:39, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

iCloud changes
I'd like to see additions/corrections made to this article based on the new "icloudiness" of BTMM. Does it work the same way as before, since it goes through the cloud? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duckyphysics (talk • contribs) 23:00, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Another factual inaccuracy re iCloud and MobileMe
MobileMe will not be gone until the end of June, 2012. So the iCloud functionality cited is in addition to MobileMe; it will eventually replace it, but not yet. This matters because iCloud only works with Lion, aka Mac OS X 10.7. If you want to continue to use Leopard (10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6) with features like this one, you have to keep using MobileMe, which seems to mean you can't upgrade to iCloud (although you can get an iCloud account by creating a new ID). I have to do more research on that last point, but I can cite examples, such as being unable to access an iCloud account's mailbox from Mail running under Snow Leopard. I determined this experimentally today. I think it's because iCloud uses a new authentication scheme that is not implemented in Snow Leopard's version of Mail.app (and probably underlying libraries).

I am very very new here, just having created my ID today, and for the reason of commenting on this very article. I have a lot to learn. After I have learned a few things, I'll fix the article, if no one has gotten to it, but not yet. For example, I have not learned to create citations (it says to use ref markup below, but not how); I can surely find one for when MobileMe goes away, for example, and I will when I know how, unless someone else fixes it first. I wanted to post this soonest. Regarding being positive: it's great that this article exists, and perfectly understandable that reading Apple's introductions to new products might not give the whole picture. I'd be delighted to discover that some one else corrected this by the time I am ready.

Jslove3 (talk) 01:07, 30 October 2011 (UTC)