Struggling to find Share over WAN

I have set up my time capslue and MBP to share the disk and enabled it in my Back to my Mac using iCloud but i am unsure if i can access it from university. do i need to enable it over WAN if so how do i go about doing it as the option is not there for me tick check the box to comfirm i can access it over the internet.
All help is much appriciated.

LaPastenague wrote:
iCloud does now support BTMM
This seems to be a changing situation. The electronic book Take Control of iCloud v1.1 (from December 2011) says "An earlier version of this book incorrectly stated that Back to My Mac also lets you access files on an AirPort Disk or Time Capsule using your iCloud credentials. Although that was true with MobileMe, it’s no longer supported in iCloud." However, this Apple document (last modified 23 March 2012) says "If you update your Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme Base Station to firmware 7.6.1 or later, you can access your Time Capsule volume or the shared storage connected to your AirPort Extreme Base Stations when your computers are on different local networks." Apparently an update to that electronic book is being prepared.
(I have no relationship with Take Control Books other than that of a customer.)

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Ok, lets get down and dirty.
What modem router are you running?
Does it have a DMZ and have you tried placing the TC in the DMZ?
Many routers do not allow a connection to be made even after you have port forwarded because the firewall is turned on. Turn off the firewall in the router. Turn off the firewall in the router on the wan connection. Check that the computer firewall is also not preventing the connection.
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Reinstall the drive back in the Time Capsule
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You can set the TC disks to user accounts.. at least you can on older TC with older airport utility.. but there are consequences which you discovered.
If you set accounts.. you will have major issue with the existing files.. they will all disappear.
The old v5 utility gives you this warning.. which somehow Apple forgot on new version.
It actually makes all the present files disappear for all users. The warning just doesn't go far enough. You do this on a blank TC.. and of course the USB drive is just the same.. you cannot use different settings on that to the TC internal drive. So offload all your files.. create accounts on a bare TC.. load the files back into the correct user profiles.
In the end you probably want more flexibility than a TC is designed for.. buy something designed for remote access.. WD MyCloud.. it is hugely superior.
Also. . . I am trying some File manager apps for my iPhone in hopes that i can connect to the same drive with it. So far no luck with the free versions of FileBrowser Lite or File Explorer Free.
Most are SMB based.. not AFP.. Apple offer only two protocols.. SMB and AFP. But no responsible ISP allows SMB over the internet. The flood of files from hacked windows machines would bring the internet to a grinding halt.
People do get around it.. you can use filebrowser for instance by opening SMB to the outside world on a non-standard port.
See http://www.stratospherix.com/support/gsw_timecapsule.php?page=6remote
But this is incredibly risky.. there is very poor security and it is not a great idea. The AFP security is much better than SMB.
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Hi All
I am having this problem with my TC (firmware 7.6.4):
If I tick "Share disks over wan" I can not access the disk from outside my network
If I untick it, then I can access the disk from remote.
It is like it is inverted.
Am I the only one?
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Using BTMM there is no need to tick share disk to WAN..
The BTMM is a connection through the NAT to the local LAN of your network. When you tick the share disk to WAN it messes that up.. although I cannot remember that being the case.
Maybe they fiddled around again in 7.6.4 and changed it.
Anyway it is not really an issue.. just set to what works for you.
As you can see the instructions for setting up BTMM do not say anything about sharing the disk over wan.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3486
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Make sure you are on the same local area network as the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, or AirPort Time Capsule that you wish to configure.
For OS X: In the Finder, choose Utilities from the Go menu, then open AirPort Utility. (You should be using AirPort Utility v6.3 or later).
Select your AirPort base station.
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Click Edit.
Enter the base station password if prompted (not your iCloud password).
Select the Base Station tab.
Enter your iCloud user name and password in the Back to My Mac section. You should see a green status indicator.
Click Update to save your changes.
You use share a disk with WAN to directly access the TC via AFP. That is alternative method of access.
See https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3413 for details of the different methods of access.

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"As I write this, I am using my wife's iPad to browse files and folders on the Time Capsule disk. I can switch over to the disk attached to the AirPort Extreme with a single tap."
Awesome! Hopefully I will have the same luck as you!
"I said that Filebrowser will do a very nice job. One of my support policies is that I never offer advice or instructions unless I have done it myself. "
Well that's good to know going forward!
"Make sense?"
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Hello,
I'm in the process of testing the print sharing over WAN capabilities of my TC 1GB. I believe everything is setup properly, and using 'back to my mac' I can indeed see the TC while tethered to my iPhone... though I'm not sure if 'back to my mac' has anything to do with sharing printers over WAN.
Overview:
TC > Printers > Shared Name (printer is showing up nicely and can print via LAN without issue)
TC > Printers > Share printers over WAN (checked)
TC > Printers > Share printers over internet using Bonjour (checked) (this prompted me to create a dynamic global host name)
TC > AirPort > Time Capsule > edit... > "Use dynamic global host name" (checked) (and all related info)
*Network Setup:*
Cable Modem > TC > wired and wireless clients
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There is no "Share disk over WAN" checkbox

Hello i do have no checkbox for "Share disk over WAN" on my airport settings for TC. What should i do? I just want to access my TC over internet.
this is back to my mac option from settings. It says 'set router' which is doubtful to me.
and here there is no checkox for it.
note: it is 7.6.1

What kind of broadband do you use?
BTMM should work fine with any router that uses upnp or nat-pmp. You do not require an apple router.
If you want to access the TC from internet.. that is possible manually.. in fact it works really well.
You need to set up a dynamic dns account.. almost all routers will have a client.. pick a service for which you have a client.. (unless you have static public IP which is even better).
Then simply port forward AFP protocol TCP port 548 to the TC.. which is in bridge.
Remotely you access by typing in connect to server... AFP://dynamicip or staticpublicIP.
Just google remote access to TC there are plenty of discussions and youtube video of how to do it.

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iBartley wrote:
This is the main router. I have forwarded 548. I am trying to use the public Ip from ISP. I have am connecting from a windows machine. Can I still connect through icoud?
Ok, there are several things wrong here.
1. If the AE is the main router you do not port forward.. you simply tick that hard disk will have wan access.
In the airport utility you tick, share disk over WAN.
Now I don't have the new AC model but I expect it will be the same.
2. The public IP from the ISP is generally dynamic and keeps changing.. unless you pay for a static IP. It is hard to get dyndns working for the AE.. I used to think impossible but Tesserax has been able to do it.
3. Windows cannot access the AE using AFP protocol.. when you tick the share disk with wan.. only AFP protocol is exposed.. because it is reasonably secure.. SMB (windows) protocol is not shared with WAN ever.. it is only shared in LAN.. and most ISP block the ports due to the internet containing several zillion windows computers with sharing turned on and no security.. The entire internet would collapse if they allowed SMB.
AFAIK there is no suitable AFP file access software for windows.. although you might have a solution to that.
Port 548 mentioned is AFP.. not SMB.
Only the Mac can access the AE hard disk.. so using BTMM makes good sense.
4. The only way I would recommend you attempt remote access via windows is using a vpn router.. and put the AE into bridge mode and access directly via vpn to the whole network.. this is a professional solution and is the way any buisness would do it. It is secure and any computer or ipad or iphone with vpn client can access the network.

Share disks over wan option missing

I have a Time Capsule (firmware 7.6.1) I am setting up with the Airport Utility (version 6.1). I am trying to share the internal drive (or even a drive connected through the USB port) externally on the internet so that I can access files remotely. I keep reading about an option to "share disks over WAN" that is supposedly on the "Disks" page of the Airport Utility. The problem is, this option is not present - at least not for me.
The "Disks" page has a list of partitions, a button to "Erase Disk", a checkbox to "Enable file sharing", and a drop-down called "Secure Shared Disks" - that's it for options.
Any ideas why I don't see this option?
Brian

"As I write this, I am using my wife's iPad to browse files and folders on the Time Capsule disk. I can switch over to the disk attached to the AirPort Extreme with a single tap."
Awesome! Hopefully I will have the same luck as you!
"I said that Filebrowser will do a very nice job. One of my support policies is that I never offer advice or instructions unless I have done it myself. "
Well that's good to know going forward!
"Make sense?"
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