"Connect to Server" behind router?

[nick2588]

Quote: Originally posted by Phil St. Romain I'm trying to follow and understand. Are you saying that if one does port forwarding for 548 to a Mac running OS X on a LAN, you can share files with that Mac over the Internet via the Finder/Connect to Server (afp://ipaddress)?

Yes, that is the point. The ONLY thing you have to do is adjust the firewall to forward port 548 to the Mac you want to access. Very easy, very cool!

Ture, it is not definately not super secure. The SSH solution is the way to go if you need security. But this way is easier, no UNIX required, and it works instantly.

[Phil St. Romain]

That's marvelous. With the LAN-based Mac behind a router, that's a modicum of security, isn't it? How would anyone even know to go snooping for it, and they'd have to log-in anyway.

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Merv, thanks for the VNC ports. Forwarding 5900 works great.

All very cool!

[squidz]

I appreciate all of the great information that has been submitted to this thread. It is very cool to learn about the ways folks have melded Unix and Mac OS X.

"Zed" was very helpful in personally coaching me through he terminal method of tunneling into my main G4 at work and onward into my second G4 at work. I've gained a much better understanding of how it works...though I'm still a poor SSH/Unix user.

The cool GUI based apps that have been mentioned to make that process more like other OS X operations are very interesting as well. I can see how the Unix/Linix community has latched on to Mac OS X and will be continually making it a new breed of operating system.

I'll be hangin' around these parts much more in hopes some of the knowledge continues to rub off on me.

Thanks all!