Re: File sharing question

[Henry Olders]

On 15 Jul 2004, at 8:56, B McKee wrote:
On Thursday, July 15, 2004, at 01:51  AM, Scott Monk wrote:
Hi.
i am wondering if there is a way that I could share my hard drive 
with my friend (and vice versa) via the internet. We are both using 
10.2.8 and we both have cable internet. Also both of our machines go 
into routers on a LAN before they go into the WAN.

I am not too familiar with os x. But what im looking for is a way to 
mount my friends drive on my desktop and vice wersa without having to 
share over a 3rd party program.

Is this possible?
Any help would be appreciated.
Scott

Hi Scott
	You certainly can with OS X, the trick is those routers.  Are these 
garden variety home units? or?
If you could set up port forwarding on those units it will work fine.  
If not it won't be easy...
Brian


A typical router permits you to specify which ports will be open to 
which specific machines on the LAN (specified by the IP address). For 
apple file sharing via IP, you need to open ports 548 (and possibly 
427) on the router's firewall. On my Asante router, it's called 
distributed servers setup. Then you also need to start file sharing on 
the sharing panel of system preferences in OS X.

Since most cable modem setups use a dynamically assigned IP to the 
router, you need to find out the current IP that has been assigned to 
your router by the cable ISP. Your friend needs to enter that IP into 
the server address box in the "connect to server" dialog under the "go" 
menu in finder. Your friend can then log in either as a guest, which 
gives access only to your "public" folder, or log in as a registered 
user to an account that you've set up on your machine (which could be 
your account).

Henry
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