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Title: Away from home? Here's how to access your Mac remotely
Post by: HCK on October 27, 2014, 03:00:24 pm
Away from home? Here's how to access your Mac remotely

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There will undoubtedly be times when you are away from your Mac but need to access a file or two on it. While the advent of services like iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.com, OneDrive, and MediaFire have made accessing your files easier, most of them require you to organize your files in specific synchronized folders on your Mac. They also have the drawback of storing your files on third-party servers, which might not be the most desirable place for personal or sensitive information.</p><p>
If you would like to remotely access files that are stored on your Mac, there are several ways to do it. But before doing so you will need a way to access your Mac from wherever you are on the Internet. There are a number of “dynamic DNS” services that can do this, but perhaps the most convenient (and arguably best) option is to use Apple’s Back to My Mac service.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2839080/away-from-home-heres-how-to-access-your-mac-remotely.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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