10.5: A fix for Back to my Mac and Time Capsule disk sharing

Apr 13, '09 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I had problems getting disk sharing using Time Capsule and Back to my Mac to work. I was able to see the Time Capsule in my Finder's sidebar and everything worked fine when I was on my network. However, when trying the same over the internet via Back to my Mac, I was able to see the Time Capsule in the Finder sidebar, but any attempts to connect to it would simply time out.

After searching the net and coming up empty, what I realized was that I had IPv6 Mode on the Time Capsule (Airport Utility » Manual Setup » Advanced » IPv6 tab » IPv6 Mode setting) set to Link-local Only. After changing that to Node and letting IPv6 be configured automatically, things just started working...

I couldn't find this documented anywhere, and hence the hint.

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