Thanks, Dan and Lee for your help. I got to a stuck place, however. Dan, you said:
Once you manually set your computer's local IP, go back to the router interface and its "port forwarding" screen. This will allow you to open specific ports to the local computer to which you manually assigned an IP number. It should be pretty obvious how to do this. If you used 192.168.0.2 for the computer, for that IP number you would forward port 548 for personal file sharing and the 20-21 range for FTP. While accessing the Netopia interface, I went to Configure>Advanced>Internal Servers (set ports). This was the only choice that mentioned or dealt with ports. There, there was only one dialogue box titled Internal Servers. It said, ?Enter a value from 1 to 65534 to disable the server?, then there were two input boxes, ?Web (HTTP) Server Port? . . . And a default 80 in the box (which I presume is for the web!), and ?Telnet Server Port? . . . And a default 23 in the box (which I presume is the one I need to fool with). I didn?t see a way to assign a port to a particular LAN address, however. I knew this was not something I wanted to mess with, so I quit. Am I in too deep? I haven?t tried www.dyndns.org yet, but that seems the way to go. Thanks, Robert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050112/2cb251a3/attachment.html
