If you have an Apple TV (3rd edition), it is suppose to act as a Sleep Proxy server.
So BTMM is not going to work without a Sleep Proxy. Something has to send the wakeup packet to bring a Mac out of sleep.īut even if cdhw is correct, Back-to-My-Mac is NOT on your local LAN, and something needs to talk to the Apple server that relay the BTMM connection and something on your LAN has to send the magic wakeup packet. I disagree with cdhw about not needing a sleep proxy server if you are not going to use a utility such as WakeOnLan. Worse, BTMM will not work because of this huge bug. It's rather silly that we need to use an external third party app to wake up a Mac so that Apple TV or other devices can access iTunes Shared Library. The Sleep Proxy server pretends to be your Mac while it is asleep, and if you attempt to connect to the Advertised service, the Sleep Proxy server will send that magic network packet to wake up the Mac, and forward the connection request to the new awake Mac. The Sleep Proxy or WakeOnLan will send a specially composed network packet that the networking hardware listens for and will wake up the Mac when it is seen. If you DO NOT have a Sleep Proxy server, then you MUST use a special program to wake up a sleeping Mac. I have 2 Sleep Proxy servers active on my network (both are Apple Airport Extreme home WiFi Router base stations the names Pantry and TV_Console are the management names I have given them). Timestamp A/R Flags if Domain Service Type Instance Nameġ6:34:14.531 Add 3 5 local. For example, here is what the command shows on my home network: Please follow Linc Davis's advice to see if you have a Sleep Proxy server on your home network.
I suppose I could move the computer sleep slider over on the main machine to "never," but that kinda defeats the whole idea of "wake for network access." Anything I'm missing? The two accessible computers had "wake for network access" and "put hard drives to sleep when possible" checked. The "connection" bar eventually reported "failed."Īll devices are connected via a network router, an old Linksys WRT54G. I was unable to do this with the main Mac in question.
The two I was able to access showed the available drives, and I was able to access folders and documents on each. I did this by going to the Finder window sidebar, scrolling to the "Shared" devices and clicking on the desired device. I was able to access the first two from a fourth, a (wireless) Mac Book Pro Retina. I tried waking three Macs on the network this morning, one a laptop (old MacBook Pro-wireless), one a desktop (recent iMac-hard wired) and the main computer in question, a new iMac Retina 27.
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