Cool. How secure is this? Can the work firewall see etc? Not that I'll ever convince the company to buy me a Mac, but it's good to know.
Hen On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Lee Larson wrote: > On Dec 6, 2003, at 2:11 PM, Robert M. Klein wrote: > > > What I want to do is access the folder that I have already set up for > > file > > sharing there from my computer at home or wherever via the > > internet--copy > > files, send files, etc. as if I were on the network there. > > > Appleshare/IP is what you want, and you don't need any extra software. > > On the server, make sure you have personal file sharing turned on and > your firewall has port 548 open. You'll also need to know the IP > address or DNS name of the server machine on the Internet. > > On the client machine, use the Go->Connect to Server menu item in the > Finder. In the Server Address field type > > afp://the_client_machine_IP_address > > and hit return. You should get a dialog box into which you type your > user name and password. > > I do this all the time from home to connect to office machines and from > my office to home. The main thing that can go wrong is a Firewall that > blocks port 548. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
