We have been attempting to create remote access to 2 macs that are behind a Netopia router employing Netopia's equivalent of port forwarding, know as Pinholes. We created a pinhole for port 548, one of the two ports that AFP is set up to use, (The other being 427). The remote Macbook at the customer's home is running system 10.5. The target Macbook, located at the customer's office behind the router, is also running system 10.5. This setup worked briefly but then halted. We tried rebooting the router after this failure but the Home Macbook fails to connect.
The second Mac that is behind the firewall is an Emac running system 10.3. We attempted to set this up using a pinhole for port 427, but this did not work. After doing some research, found a command line that could be issued to set up the second Mac to use port 549. The command line is as follows: ipfw add fwd localhost,548 tcp from any to any 549 via en0 This command line failed to load. We've also tried a direct AFP connection to a printer via port 427, but this also failed. Any comments, thoughts or suggestions would be most welcome! Thanks. Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 a new & improved http://www.SLYNsystems.com coming soon serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be April 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
