How to set up Back to My Mac on macOS

You may have never heard of this feature but it is a tool that will allow you to have everything on your Mac even when you are not at home. If a user has an iCloud account, they can use the existing "Back to my Mac" feature in iCloud options to connect to your other Mac computers over the Internet.

With these tools you will be able to Share Screen to control the remote computer from the place where it is connected to the Internet or share files between computers, including files that are not saved in iCloud Drive (such as files in the Downloads, Videos or folders. Images).

In order to correctly configure this function, we must be sure that it is activated on the Macs to be used to this end. If you have an iMac at home and a MacBook that you carry with you, you must activate the function in both and to do this, follow these steps:

  1. Choose Apple menu> "System Preferences" and click iCloud.
  2. Choose Back to my MacIf you haven't signed into iCloud yet, you must set up iCloud before you can select Back to My Mac.
  3. Follow the prompts to enable shared services, select "Wake up my computer to allow network access" and make any other necessary changes to "Back to my Mac."

Once the function is activated on both Macs, to remotely connect the two computers you must follow the following steps:

  1. In a Finder window, in the sidebar, look in the section Shared The Mac you want to connect to. If nothing appears in the list in the Shared section, hover to the right of this option and click Show.

    If the Shared section is not in the sidebar, go to  Finder> Preferences, click on "Sidebar" and select "Back to my Mac" in the Shared section.

  2. Click on the computer you want to use and click "Connect as" or "Share screen."

It is very important that you know that this cannot be done without having an AirPort or AirPort Time Capsule base station configured for NAT-PMP (NAT port mapping protocol) or a router configured for UPnP (Universal Plug and Play). . 


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