Accessing home network

[eternlgladiator]

Is it possible to access my airport extreme base station at home from somewhere else? I have an external hard drive connected to it and would like to be able to access from work or on the go. If I can do this will it be secure and safe from other users accessing it? I've googled info on this and have come up pretty empty. I'm running a MBP 2.4 with OSX 10.6.4. I'm comfortable doing most tasks short of terminal entries so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone!

 

[psxguru]

Just enable sharing over WAN in the disk options in airport utility. You can choose what security method there as well.

If you a dynamic IP then you'll need to use dyndns.org or similar to map a hostname to your WAN IP.

You should then be able to use 'connect to server' from finder.

 

[eternlgladiator]

worked perfectly. Thank you psxguru