Remote wont find my mac

My network company resently chaged my modem. Now i cant get rowmote or remote to work, my mac wont even find my printer. Whats going on ?
Sometimes it works but somtimes it doesn't.....

Oh yeah, and i have no Firewall....

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The newly introduced (yet to come, but we suppose it comes out along with iOS5 on OCT 4) Find My Mac power is a strong defense against lost Macs. But here comes one trivial question:
Such a measure, to be effective, should be working "backwards", not "forwards", should't it?
By saying backwards, I mean, the mechanism should be able to protect it self, override current settings and let you Find YOUR Mac after you realized your Mac has been stolen. To make it a really effective method, Find My Mac functionality should be activated by default, not by Prompting!
Here comes a hilarious picture. Even if you got luck, enabling "Find My Mac" beforehand it's stolen, the thief can readily reinstall OS and "don't allow" Find My Mac to even start to function. What's the point of "Find My Mac" then? Or is Apple assuming all thieves are as stupid thus forgetting to refreshing your whole HDD?
This is totally not professional. As I know, all the "recovery" softwares for mac, they work in the same "forwards" way. Assuming you managed to Enable them beforehand, and hope for the luck that those thieves are stupid enough not to erase your HDD and yet smart enough to know your password to log in in the first place.
A real world Effective "Find My Mac" should be working backwards, Apple technicians should think about realistic situations "rather than fatasy":
1, Activates automatically, or can be activated remotely under authorization (like, from Apple or Police Department) AFTER you found your computer is stolen or deactivated/restored by the thief.
2, Binds Serial Number. S/N is the only reliable identification for a Mac, since usually thieves will not replace your mother board. It should work in the way that once you knows your S/N and you have registered it under your Apple ID (the whole meaning of ever registered it, isn't it?), you should be able to know where the Mac with the same S/N are.
3, It's totally OK that is uses Internet to locate, given our macs don't have GPS or SIM Card. You see I won't raise far-fetched expectations.
That is one of the only logical way that Find My Mac could ever be useful in a case of theft. And that's what all the customers really wanted, being victims for stolen Macs for years. I know and understand Apple totally doesn't have to do any of these. But isn't it nice we can use Apple Community, Serial Number and its Registration database to protect ourselves. Only Apple can do this. You had direct access to all your devices. I don't see why you can't do this while you can boldly "report, or steal" people's whereabouts for business benifitials in your ios.
Is it beacause after weighing in and out, you find it's not worth it? Is it not worth it to protect your own betrusted consumers against their largest threat to their products: theft? (Note, not all theft are indebted to the owner himself. Break in, Robbery).
If you do love your consumers, it really takes nothing to build a defence within the Apple system. I see "Find My Mac" is a huge step forward. But i hope it can really work to solve real life problems.
Just my last minute suggestions. I am waiting to find my lost Mac one day. I will wait to that day. Because it's not technically impossible. It's just some guy, they don't do it.

The new "possessor" does not need to erase or reinstall. All he needs to do is boot to Recovery HD (single user mode for OS 10.6.8 or earlier), and reset the password–> http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/
For "almost" thief-proof option, you must use your iPad or iPhone to activate firmware password as soon as possible after the Mac goes missing or have already activated a firmware password login. For Macs built 2011 or later, that can only be bypassed at an authorized Apple service shop that SHOULD request ID from the possessor.
A firmware password prompt will appear at the next restart, and no optional boot is available. That means no option to reset admin password, or erase, or boot to single user mode, or reset NVRAM / PRAM, until the firmware is reset using a special digital key only available to the shop. Even a new storage mechanism (new HDD, etc.) cannot turn off the firmware prompt. The digital key is canceled and a new key provided periodically, thus twarting any useful distribution outside of official channels.
Apple does not take a pro-active stance on using firmware password, because for the owners with bad memories, it can become a huge headache and will cause ill will.

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I'd like to use the remote lock/wipe for my Macbook Pro should it ever be lost, but sadly it's only a feature of iCloud and therefore Lion.
Is it likely that this feature will ever come to Snow Leopard, or will I need to use 3rd party software to do it?

stevearm wrote:
I'd like to use the remote lock/wipe for my Macbook Pro should it ever be lost, but sadly it's only a feature of iCloud and therefore Lion.
If you use Filevualt, the entire drive is encrypted and therefore doesn't need to be wiped as the data is inaccessible,
However a full Filevault can make recovery by you difficult and slow down the normal operation of the machine, the computer won't work if it won't boot and tracking software won't work neither.
A alternative is to use software to encrypt individual files or folders of files, this way they can be transferred to another machine, the software installed and the files decrypted with the password. The computer can boot and therefore give up it's location and details about the perp with secret software installed.
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"Find my Mac" is no guaranty it will be recovered, there is Prey which can be used to locate a stolen laptop, provided it's used and gets on the Internet. With it your only stopping the stupid thief, not a geek who will wipe the drive immediatly.
http://preyproject.com/
Remember Apple lost that iPhone prototype and it wasn't recovered with "Find my iPhone" so that shows it doesn't work all that great in reality, they are playing on your fears.
Just train yourself to be diligent, keep a eye on your stuff, or use a low cost Linux netbook for "on the go" purposes, if you lose it it's only a few hundred dollars, instead of thousands with a MacBook Pro.
Apple won't do iCloud for Snow Leopard, it's their way of force upgrading people to Lion so they lose all their investment in software and begin accepting a closed computer like iPhones and iPads.

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Help me please,
i've got this big problem.
I needed to try to lock my
MacBook Pro (15", 2.4/2.2 10 with Lion installed)
via iCloud "find my mac".
I did it in remote with my iPod Touch app "find iPhone".
It worked (unfortunately). First it located my mac in the right place, then i tried to lock it.
It asked to choose a 6 digit PIN, then asked it again.
And so my powerBook really locked.
Now i expected it would reboot with a request for my PIN (i saw that screenshot in many web sites), but no...!
My mac just shows a neutral screen with a blinking folder icon with a "?" in center...
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command + "r"
"t"
other otions on restart but... no way, the firmware seems to be locked and i don't know how to unlock it
It seems a BIG BUG for iCloud "find my mac"
any other had heard about similar cases, or could find a solution?
thanks in advance
luca

Right answer, thanks a lot, you really saved me, i had a hurry-job to do for monday.
I thought i had already tried that way, but it seems i didn't...
now i just wonder why it's a mandatory pass to unlock you mac and it's not advised anywhere...
by the way, thanks again.
Ciao,
luca
ps
i was so happy about your right answer that i was going to say goodbye to you with an "I love you",
when i realized by your name that you are a woman, and my wife is here around, so i will bypass that,
but you can have an idea of my happiness by that...

Find my Mac service OR serial number tracking?

I recently had my MBP stolen along with a few other things.
One of the first things I did was to log onto icloud.com to configure remote wipe on the device.
That was about a month ago, still no sign of it.
Now I'd like to think it hasn't been opened yet, and the culprits haven't even figured out how to get online with it, but some thieves can be quite shrewed.
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So if somebody gets onto your mac, they simply need to go disable the icloud services while offline, and they're home free.
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Access to see login attempts/(un)successful logins BY DEVICE (Type and Serial) using your AppleID - surely not a ridiculous request?
I'm sure it's not in Apple's best interest to 'brick' the device if we were to report it stolen - rendering it useless in the Apple Ecosystem - that's the loss of an additional(albeit dishonest, thieving) Mac user . But ye it would be awesome to be able to render the device useless at a hardware level. There has to be SOME benefit to being constantly joined by the hip with Apple and its services?
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Thanks
Looking forward to ANY response.

*sigh* Was hoping for more helpful and informed response than that - I just lost a bet.
I don't want to nitpick around LOST vs STOLEN here, and I'm not suggesting Apple become a policing body in this whole mix.
My request is around
1. The fact that if my 'LOST' device were 'FOUND', the security measure called Find my Mac/Iphone has a flaw in that it can be disabled without requiring any authentication - maybe an enhancement to be made here?
2. How possible would it be at some point to be able to see logins and attempts on our AppleIDs along with the device information - such as serial number and device type associated with it. Quite possibly an invaluable feature as part of the MARKETED security and privacy features given at the moment.
Lastly, Prey is nothing more or less than what Find my Mac/Iphone is, except that it'll require authentication to enable/disable. So suggesting that Prey ARE the police and WILL help with recovering stolen products is a bit contradictory.
Lol and hopefully the next response doesn't begin with a juvenile 'First of all...' - not a good start
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If I want to access my office mac from home, what program do I need to use? (Apple Remote Desktop?) Where can I find detailed instructions?
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ns,
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