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  back to my mac, snow leopard Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-08-21 14:14 -0700
    Re: back to my mac, snow leopard Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-08-21 20:44 -0700
      Re: back to my mac, snow leopard Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-08-22 14:21 -0700

#29839 — back to my mac, snow leopard

I did a little googling and poking around on Apple's site and found 
nothing, so please bear with me if this is something I should have 
found but didn't.

Since moving to iCloud, what's the story regarding Back to My Mac and 
machines which can't use it?  The desktop in one of our offices is an 
older iMac which cannot go any further than Snow Leopard.

I used to use Back To My Mac to pull up that machine's desktop or file 
shares from my other machines elsewhere.  Since MobileMe is dead, 
though, that machine no longer shows up as an available share (or 
vice-versa - the iCloud-connected machines aren't visible to that one, 
either).

Is Back To My Mac for a machine which can't go beyond Snow Leopard just 
dead and over with?

Is my only alternative (short of replacing that machine, which is in 
the works eventually) to go with something like Slink 
<http://slinkware.com>  ? Anyone here used it?

Thanks!

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#29884

In article <k10tna$si4$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> wrote:

> I did a little googling and poking around on Apple's site and found 
> nothing, so please bear with me if this is something I should have 
> found but didn't.
> 
> Since moving to iCloud, what's the story regarding Back to My Mac and 
> machines which can't use it?  The desktop in one of our offices is an 
> older iMac which cannot go any further than Snow Leopard.
> 
> I used to use Back To My Mac to pull up that machine's desktop or file 
> shares from my other machines elsewhere.  Since MobileMe is dead, 
> though, that machine no longer shows up as an available share (or 
> vice-versa - the iCloud-connected machines aren't visible to that one, 
> either).
> 
> Is Back To My Mac for a machine which can't go beyond Snow Leopard just 
> dead and over with?
> 
> Is my only alternative (short of replacing that machine, which is in 
> the works eventually) to go with something like Slink 
> <http://slinkware.com>  ? Anyone here used it?
> 
> Thanks!

If everyone in the office is at 10.7, then it might be cheaper in the 
long run to upgrade the older machine to a newer model.  Eventually more 
will become unsupported and it will become problematic for the admin 
responsible for supporting it.  If there's someone in the office that 
doesn't need the latest and greatest and doesn't need to connect to 
shared documents in iCloud, give them that system.

Alternately, you could take a more universal approach and migrate to a 
multiplatform solution like Dropbox or Google Drive/Docs.  That way lots 
of different machines could share documents with the existing Macs.

It's really up to you to do the cost/benefit analysis and determine what 
makes more sense for your environment.

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#29915

On 2012-08-22 03:44:17 +0000, Michael Vilain said:

> In article <k10tna$si4$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>  Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Is Back To My Mac for a machine which can't go beyond Snow Leopard just
>> dead and over with?

> If everyone in the office is at 10.7, then it might be cheaper in the
> long run to upgrade the older machine to a newer model.  Eventually more
> will become unsupported and it will become problematic for the admin
> responsible for supporting it.  If there's someone in the office that
> doesn't need the latest and greatest and doesn't need to connect to
> shared documents in iCloud, give them that system.

Well, the office is really just me (and two other people use one of the 
machines periodically).  And all the admin and support is, well, still 
just me.

I really just want to be able to access the SL machine remotely, both 
filesystem and screen sharing.  I can do both when I'm on the ML 
machine on the same local network, but when I'm, say, at the other 
office or out of town, the SL machine, which used to be accessible, no 
longer is.
> 
> Alternately, you could take a more universal approach and migrate to a
> multiplatform solution like Dropbox or Google Drive/Docs.  That way lots
> of different machines could share documents with the existing Macs.

I use Dropbox and Wuala extensively for syncing up files across 
machines, but they are necessarily limited - the SL machine is the main 
family photo and video archive, for example, and those are way to big 
to put in Dropbox, nor would I want them synced and filling the drives 
on other machines - just want access.  Back To My Mac was perfect for 
this and now seems to be dead on the SL machine.

I think I'm going to give Slink a try.  If it makes it seem like I'm on 
the local network, I'd then be able to use screen sharing and 
filesharing via bonjour rather than Back To My Mac, and that'd be 
enough.  Not sure there's much more benefit to it, though I wonder if, 
once linked up on Slink, the laptop thinking its on the local network 
might try doing the local network time machine backup to the airport 
extreme.  That's probably not a great idea and I'll have to keep an eye 
on that.
> 
> It's really up to you to do the cost/benefit analysis and determine what
> makes more sense for your environment.

Thanks for your comments.  Much appreciated.

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