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Access and control your Mac running Mac OS X Leopard from any other Leopard-based Mac over the Internet — right in the new Finder. With .Mac and Back to My Mac, you’re always close to your files and applications.
Wherever you go. There’s your Mac.
Back to My Mac puts any remote Leopard-based Mac you use within easy reach. .Mac finds your Mac computers over the Internet and displays them in the Leopard Finder on the Mac you’re using. So you can connect from anywhere with just a click.
No file left behind.
Say you’re making a presentation on your Mac at work but need a photo from your Mac at home. Simply select your remote Mac in the Finder Sidebar and connect. You can browse your entire hard drive and drag the file you need to your local Mac.
Your Mac. By remote control.
With Screen Sharing, you can control your remote Mac as though you’re sitting in front of it. Edit and save documents, launch applications, move folders. You can be anywhere in the world, and feel like you never left.
See Back to my Mac in action.
Access and control your Leopard-based Mac from any other Mac running Leopard right in the new Finder. With .Mac and Back to My Mac, you’re always close to your files and applications.
At home on AirPort.
If you’ve got an AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express Base Station, you can start using Back to My Mac right out of the gate. And because Back to My Mac also works with many modern home routers,* accessing your Mac at home or at work is a snap.
For your eyes only.
Back to My Mac uses advanced authentication and data encryption technologies to help prevent unauthorized access to your data and protect it during transit over the Internet. So you can rest easy knowing your data is secure.
*Requirements for using Back to My Mac
- A .Mac subscription (Basic Membership or .Mac Family Pack required)
- Two or more Mac OS X 10.5.1 Leopard-based Mac computers that are configured for use with the same .Mac account
- For Screen Sharing, a 300 Kbps or faster bi-directional network connection between computers (file sharing may be usable with slower connections)
- Back to My Mac is compatible with AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express, or third-party routers which fully support NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) or Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).
