Still agitated over the loss of functionality of the VPN, I turned on mobile me for two of my macs and made sure that p-m-p was turned on in my AEBS ( and turned on sharing the attached usb drive) and hied myself down to the closest mall and plopped down in a Hastings Book Store with free wifi.
Booting the macbook air showed the finder windows Shared sections contained references to the 'AirDisk' attached to the AEBS and the two macs that I had enabled with MobileMe. My first try was to mount the disk drive on the AEBS and that succeeded. Next try was to try and mount the two machines shown in the finder panels. This met with failure...IKE tries to negotiate but fails early on and eventually times out... I then went over to BW3 for lunch and tried their public hotspot with the same results. I noticed that if I toggled MobileMe on/off on the MBA that I got a brief flash stating that sharing would not work because PNP was not enabled in the router. Does this mean that in order to : 1) My 'remote' machine needs to be connected with a PNP enabled router *and* 2) My 'target' machine (on my home network) needs to be connected with a PNP router (it is). If yes does this mean that Back to My Mac has very limited usability because PNP is not in common use at hot spots? Tain't clear to me why I can mount the disk attached to the AEBS but cannot access the volumes on the mobile me enabled macs. I am sorta fearful of opening the ssh port on the home network...there are far too many clever people out there... Any suggestions on how I can reach my home network? Jerry_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
