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Accessing my friends MAC

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ccalleri

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Jul 7, 2007
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I'm sure this question has been asked before .. but here goes:

My Mac (at home behind a router), my friends Mac (at their house behind a router), how can I access their computer from mine via 'Connect to Server' (command+k) .. possible? If not command+k, how? I don't want to use a remote desktop client.

Thanks!
cc
 
Well if they enable file sharing and forward the correct ports on their router you may be able to, alternatively get them to enable remote login (System Preferences==>Sharing==>Remote Login) and then forward port 22 through their router to their Mac and then use Cyberduck/Transmit to access their Mac via SFTP.
 
Go to System Prefs -> Sharing, and tick Personal File Sharing on both computers. Open any window in Finder, and click the Network icon in the bar on the left side. After a few seconds, your friend's Mac should come up there. Enter their username and password (if they have one), and select the drive to open.

well, this method has worked for me. Give Eraserhead's method a go first, though. He beat me by about 60 seconds in the post :p
 
Scarlet Fever said:
Go to System Prefs -> Sharing, and tick Personal File Sharing on both computers. Open any window in Finder, and click the Network icon in the bar on the left side. After a few seconds, your friend's Mac should come up there.
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That'll only work if you're networking to Macs on a local network, not over the net like it sounds like he might be trying to do. To do file sharing over the internet, do exactly what Scarlet Fever wrote, but your friend's Mac will NOT show up in your network browser.

You must get the internet address of your friend's Mac which will be listed in their file sharing system pref, it'll say something like "for other people to reach this computer they should connect to afp://112.62.52.255" Then on your computer in the finder just do "Go > Connect to Server" and type in that address.
 
Scarlet Fever said:
Go to System Prefs -> Sharing, and tick Personal File Sharing on both computers. Open any window in Finder, and click the Network icon in the bar on the left side. After a few seconds, your friend's Mac should come up there. Enter their username and password (if they have one), and select the drive to open.
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This only works if you are on the same subnet.

Since they have routers, the friend will have to poke holes in his router to allow AFP traffic. If your friend doesn't have admin rights on the router, no go.
 
motulist said:
That'll only work if you're networking to Macs on a local network, not over the net like it sounds like he might be trying to do. To do file sharing over the internet, do exactly what Scarlet Fever wrote, but your friend's Mac will NOT show up in your network browser.

You must get the internet address of your friend's Mac which will be listed in their file sharing system pref, it'll say something like "for other people to reach this computer they should connect to afp://112.62.52.255" Then on your computer in the finder just do "Go > Connect to Server" and type in that address.
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I believe you can use the method where it shows up in the network when you are on the same network( ie you go over to his/her house or vice versa and connect to the same network)
 
Enable AFP or SSH (sftp) on each side.

Each of you will have to forward either the AFP port or the SSH port to your IP behind the router in the router settings.

This will allow you to connect to his/her machine by doing afp://ip.ip.ip.ip or use sftp with cyberduck or something.

the key is the port forwarding on the router tho, otherwise it won't work when you try to connect directly to their ip address
 
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