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Is there anything like this for Mac?
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Just turn on Apple Remote Desktop in the sharing preferences and get a free VNC viewer such as Chicken of the VNC.
Wouldn't just turning on Personal File Sharing, remembering the afp:// link enable you to access and mount your HD on any mac you choose? I do this quite regularly with my PB and my iMac, but always at home through an ad hoc network, never across the web, but I'd assume it would work the same. And it's all built in, no need for anything else 
grapes911 said:
I didn't realize Apple Remote Desktop worked with any standar VNC client. Handy to know.
You don't get access to all the neat features (like being able to run software updates or install apps without looking in), but you get the basic RD stuff.todd2000 said:
Thanks for all the help My use would be mostly transferring large files between two Macs, but from a large distance. Sometimes even the occasional PC (
) at my college. If the afp:// would work for this then that's what I'm looking for. I'm currently using it at home, but that's a local network.I appreciate all the helpneocell said:Wouldn't just turning on Personal File Sharing, remembering the afp:// link enable you to access and mount your HD on any mac you choose? I do this quite regularly with my PB and my iMac, but always at home through an ad hoc network, never across the web, but I'd assume it would work the same. And it's all built in, no need for anything else
– Mitra.
That's truerichardjames said:
Are there any issues regarding firewall for FTP or afp://
My dorm is all "walled" up.
IEatApples said:
Mmmm...this might have been a valuable thing to begin with.
So you have a computer behind a firewall, with all incoming ports blocked, right? Are you even allowed to run a webserver from this computer, and see it from the outside?
You want to access that computer from outside the firewall, initiating the connection from the outside. I don't think that's possible without a firewall port being made available to your computer.
I know LimeWire is telling me that I can't use direct connections to IP-addresses. Does this exclude the possibilities for FTP and afp://mkrishnan said:Mmmm...this might have been a valuable thing to begin with.
So you have a computer behind a firewall, with all incoming ports blocked, right? Are you even allowed to run a webserver from this computer, and see it from the outside?
You want to access that computer from outside the firewall, initiating the connection from the outside. I don't think that's possible without a firewall port being made available to your computer.
if so, any other way to transfer large (50MB<) files from behind a firewall? And I won't get a port opened for me. iChat works, and I have been sending small (5MB>) files using that. So, any ideas?
IEatApples said:I know LimeWire is telling me that I can't use direct connections to IP-addresses. Does this exclude the possibilities for FTP and afp://
It's not ideal, but can you use some sort of netdrive type of thing? (something like briefcase.yahoo.com or netdrive.com...) Or do you have a share filespace that you can access on school servers, to which you can upload from your computer in the dorm, and then download from somewhere else?
I've found that turning on the Personal Web Sharing in System Preferences does the trick nicely for transferring large files. Just turn it on, go to your Sites folder in your Home directory, create a folder called "files", and throw anything you want into it. Then from your other computer, go to the address http://youripaddress/~yourusername/files/ and there should be a list of your files there. (The root address should also be available in the same pane that you used to turn on Web Sharing...just add a files/ to the end of it)
Basically what you've done is you've turned your computer into a website server, and your other computer is connecting directly to it and downloading files. Works like a charm and is SO much faster than sharing services! PCs should also have no problem accessing your computer, since it's just a website.
Just as a disclaimer though, I tried using this at my university a little while ago, and it would only work when I was plugged directly into the ResNet service (just a fancy name for residence network), but it refused to work when I was on my own local subnet through my Airport Express.
Hope that helps!
Basically what you've done is you've turned your computer into a website server, and your other computer is connecting directly to it and downloading files. Works like a charm and is SO much faster than sharing services! PCs should also have no problem accessing your computer, since it's just a website.
Just as a disclaimer though, I tried using this at my university a little while ago, and it would only work when I was plugged directly into the ResNet service (just a fancy name for residence network), but it refused to work when I was on my own local subnet through my Airport Express.
Hope that helps!
Hello again Mohanmkrishnan said:
I don't think so, and this is scaring me a bit. Me and a friend was planning on buying XBOX 360s and play vs. on the net, but I have a bad feeling this might not work due to the firewall? Or will this work anyway?
Thanks, but I don't think it'll work behind the firewall.
IEatApples said:
You might have more luck for that. My understanding is that you don't need open ports to play network games on an XBOX -- you both connect to the gaming server or whatever it's called, and that circumvents this requirement. So you might be in luck for that.
I think you're out of luck, though, as far as the other thing is concerned, my friend.
Not sure,mkrishnan said:You might have more luck for that. My understanding is that you don't need open ports to play network games on an XBOX -- you both connect to the gaming server or whatever it's called, and that circumvents this requirement. So you might be in luck for that.
I think you're out of luck, though, as far as the other thing is concerned, my friend.
or , but don't worry it's all Oh well, we can't have everything, can we?
Although, as I am a Mac user it feels strange, and hard to accept.