Hi there,
I have a bit of a complicated question, but this really intrigues me. I have recently bought a MacBook for my grandmother, and I've set up Screen Sharing (VNC) and File Sharing (AFP) using port forwarding on her router, so I can help her when she doesn't know what to do, and I can send her photos or videos on the fly. This all works very well, but it requires setting up port forwarding on the server side.
Now, I also have a MobileMe subscription, and in the fortunate position of owning both an iMac and a MacBook. So sometimes, when I'm at the university, my iMac shows up under the shared tab in the Finder, and I can connect to it using either VNC or AFP. But this is all done WITHOUT configuring the server-side router. I am on the school's network, which is heavily secured, I need to log in using a 802.1X with TLS script (don't know what that all means, but it looks the business).
So my question is this, how can MobileMe figure out how to connect to my iMac without using portforwarding? The connection line should be something like insideip->port->outsideip->port->insideip, right? I don't get it....
I have a bit of a complicated question, but this really intrigues me. I have recently bought a MacBook for my grandmother, and I've set up Screen Sharing (VNC) and File Sharing (AFP) using port forwarding on her router, so I can help her when she doesn't know what to do, and I can send her photos or videos on the fly. This all works very well, but it requires setting up port forwarding on the server side.
Now, I also have a MobileMe subscription, and in the fortunate position of owning both an iMac and a MacBook. So sometimes, when I'm at the university, my iMac shows up under the shared tab in the Finder, and I can connect to it using either VNC or AFP. But this is all done WITHOUT configuring the server-side router. I am on the school's network, which is heavily secured, I need to log in using a 802.1X with TLS script (don't know what that all means, but it looks the business).
So my question is this, how can MobileMe figure out how to connect to my iMac without using portforwarding? The connection line should be something like insideip->port->outsideip->port->insideip, right? I don't get it....