Back to My Mac?

[tann]

Hi all, I did a quick search and nothing came up..

So what is this? And how do I turn it on. I can't figure it out :s

 

[topmounter]

And how the heck does it know where my Mac is located?

 

[tann]

And how the heck does it know where my Mac is located?

Via wifi maybe? It's this back to my mac thing I'm confused about!

 

[Rigby]

And how the heck does it know where my Mac is located?

A Mac with activated iCloud client registers its IP address under a special DNS name, which other computers can then look up from anywhere on the Internet. This works similar to services like DynDNS. The technical details are described here:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6281