Back To My Mac not waking remote mac in Mountain Lion iCloud

Back To My Mac will not connect to a remote mac in Mountain Lion unless that mac is awake. I have the "Wake for network access" button checked. Once I have somebody touch a keyboard to wake up the remote mac I can share screens, and share files, but this is obviously a problem if nobody is around to wake up the remote machine. I have screen sharing and file sharing checked, and I'm allowing access to the hard drive to myself as a user. This was not a problem in Mobile Me, but seems to be a problem in iCloud.
Additionally, if I manually type in the the WAN IP address for the remote mac, it will connect to it's associated Time Capsule, but will not connect to the mac itself. All macs are 10.8.1.
Any ideas what's going on?

Hi Dan97103!
I have an article here for you that can help you troubleshoot this issue with your Back to My Mac functionality:
OS X: Using and troubleshooting Back to My Mac with your iCloud account
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4907
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden

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