So I'm currently on vacation, but I need to access a file on my computer at home. Both computers are MacBooks, both running the latest system software. I of course have the password to both my computers, as well as to the Airport base station back at home. I also have the IP address for both of my computers. Can I achieve what I need with this information, or is there something I am missing?
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I'm on vacation, and I need to access something on my computer at home
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There are many ways you could o this but you would have had to set it up before you left. For example by default routers can't be configured from the Internet side, only from your local LAN side. Did you change the preference to allow remote configuration? If not you are out of luck. The router is just part of it. The next step is the computer. Is it running at least one kind of remote access services? By default these don't run. You would have had to enable one of them.
This is easy to accomplish....
Call a friend, have them go to your house and let themselves in with a key that you have, with fore-thought, left them. With both of you on the phone you can now talk them through emailing you the file. [sarcasm off]...
I have sympathy for you, actually. I know what its like, and on several occasions I have had to find and send files for my wife.
But unless you have set something up before hand, the friend and and key trick is your best bet.
Good Luck
Call a friend, have them go to your house and let themselves in with a key that you have, with fore-thought, left them. With both of you on the phone you can now talk them through emailing you the file. [sarcasm off]...
I have sympathy for you, actually. I know what its like, and on several occasions I have had to find and send files for my wife.
But unless you have set something up before hand, the friend and and key trick is your best bet.
Good Luck
And tested before one goes on a trip. I set up Back to my Mac, but it took several trips to the local internet cafe to fine-tune the settings so that it actually worked from outside the house.