Back-to-My-Mac and MobileMe?

Trying to set up Back-to-my-Mac and this site http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1109 says I have to have a MobileMe account...well I just transferred it to iCloud!
So in System Preferences>iCloud I have checked Back-to-my-Mac...but what else do I have to do to my MacbookPro or iPad to use it?
NEVER MIND...I FOUND THE ANSWER AT http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4907

Never mind....I figured this out!

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If show all calendars then look like all sync and duplicated twice.
What can I do?

Hi Yu,
Yes, I did this too. For me, it was due to the fact that on the info tab in iTunes, I had ticked the 'Sync Address Book' and 'Sync iCal Calendars' options. You don't need these ticked, if you already sync over the air with MobileMe, unless you want duplicates on your iPhone.
To correct this I:
1) Un-ticked these options in iTunes (this didn't remove the duplicates though, even after a sync), so...
2) Deleted my MobileMe account from my iPhone in Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars (don't worry, your data is stored in the cloud)
3) Re-added my MobileMe account on my iPhone. As soon as my MobileMe credentials had been verified, the phone identified that the contacts and calendars that I was downloading from MobileMe already existed on my phone (synced from my Mac), and it gave me the option to Merge these with my MobileMe data. I chose the option to merge, and as soon as that was done (took a few seconds), I was back to one set of MobileMe data, and no duplicates.
Sorted...
Hope that helps.
Chris.

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Are the ports in fact open from the net?
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