Hi Gabriele, You’re right, Skype is a good idea. It has NAT traversal built-in. It will save you a lot of work.
Let’s say you’re insane and decide to do this the hard way anyway. Basically what you have to do is tell the box that manages your Internet connection to knock a hole in its firewall and send traffic destined for a port, say port 22 for remote login, to your Mac. You could try this tool to do it using a port mapping protocol, which will open up the hole for a while: http://codingmonkeys.de/portmap/ If that doesn’t work, next you’ll have to log in to your router and do it yourself with the web interface. That, I’m sorry to say, is different by router … Finally create the new user account, and tell the remote side to scp or sftp to your public IP address, as reported by PortMap or your router. They have to log in with the user and password you give them. Finally they transfer the file. If that sounds like a lot of work just to send a file, that’s because it is. :( -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
