Back to My Mac - can't figure out NAT stuff
So I'm far from technical...I just can't figure out how to get Back To My Mac (BTMM) to work. I am setting this up from home now...
I have walked through the BTMM manual:
I start in AirPort Utility and select my Base Station.
To be able to see the "Internet" button at the top (and AirPort, Printers, Disks and Advanced), I need to first select "Manual Setup".
I click "Internet" as it says to do in the BTMM manual. Then there is only an "Internet Connection" tab. So to get DHCP and NAT to appear, I need to change the Connection Sharing drop-down from "Off (Bridge Mode)" to "Share a public IP address". Once I do that, the NAT tab appears.
So I click NAT and then make sure 'Enable NAT Port Mapping Protocol' is checked (it is already).
Then I click the Update button in the lower right.
What I get then is a notice:
'Correct the 4 problems below before updating this base station.
Problem:
DHCP Beginning Address
DHCP Ending Address
Allow SNMP over WAN
Allow configuration over Ethernet WAN port'
Then when I select any of those 4 problems, different notices appear at the bottom. Thing is, I have no idea how to fix any of them, and the BTMM manual gives no clues how to fix this.
Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks!
I have the same problem. From as far as I can see, there isn't any reason to have the SNMP over WAN option checked. The DHCP beginning and ending addresses have something to do with how the airport assigns IP addresses to the computers on the network. I have a theory, but I need some backup. I think if I disable the DHCP on my modem and use the Airport as my DHCP server and enable NAT, it should work. Can anyone help out with this?!
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