Idisk with 10.7.2

I have a mobileme account with an idisk. I know that it is over june 30th. My friend just purchased a new mac book pro and cannot access my public folder. Any ideas on how he can access it? There is no Go/iDisk menu item. From what I can tell from Apple support is he needs to log into a mobileme account. I have a password on my public folder, do not want to give out my master password.
Thanks.

The problem with that is he needs to send files to me. At the Apple Store I did get 10.7.2 to mount my disk by:
Cmd-K (connect to server) - https://idisk.mac.com/member name/Public. My computers are on 10.6.8.
If you are running 10.7.2 could you try it?
But my friend who is running 10.7.2 on a new mac mini cannot get this to work.
We have since switched to using Dropbox. I was hoping that before June 30th of this year that Apple would come to their senses and bring back the idisk, or at least let us put whatever kind of file we want in the iCloud. Not just what they deem approiate (iwork docs, etc).
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