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Remote Access From Another Country

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citywalk

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Oct 23, 2008
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Is there software available so i can remote access my files on my imac from a macbook?

For instance could i connect to my Imac from a macbook in the USA. I'm moving out there for a year, but wanna access the music on my Imac. I plan on buying a macbook out there so cant just transfer the songs.

The macbook will have leopard and the imac has tiger

Hope that made sense lol
 
citywalk said:
Is there software available so i can remote access my files on my imac from a macbook?

For instance could i connect to my Imac from a macbook in the USA. I'm moving out there for a year, but wanna access the music on my Imac. I plan on buying a macbook out there so cant just transfer the songs.

The macbook will have leopard and the imac has tiger

Hope that made sense lol
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Do the cloud computing thing or burn your data to cd/dvd or use a thumb drive ...
 
Whatever system you have setup to access remotely, I wouldn't count on this long-term. If the power ever goes out you're sunk.
 
Consider getting an external drive, cloning your iMac's HD onto it, and just taking that with you, then.

As for the remote desktop-ing -- remote desktop is remote desktop. If your computer can be accessed from a public IP address in your own country, there's nothing additionally stopping you from accessing it via a public IP address anywhere else in the world. So whatever you do to enable remote desktoping from the internet will work without further modification when you go abroad.

You can set your Mac to auto-reboot on power outage, I guess, but it seems like a dicey proposition to me.

The bandwidth and latency will be fairly killer, however.

The external drive solution should not cost you all that much, though. It seems like a much better solution without a lot of capital investment, to me.
 
Should have mentioned my other half will still be here :)

So the imac wont be unattended
 
I'd go the thumb drive route, for its size and cheapness. MicroCenter sells some pretty cheap drives. I believe the 16GB drives were in the $30 range.
 
wont be buying the new non firewire macbook thats for sure.

I dont wanna go down the thumb drive etc route. There will be files uploaded to my imac at home while im away that i will want access to. Movies, photos etc. The only other option is for my fiancee to email the files to me. But that could be a hassle with time zone changes etc.
 
if you don't mind upgrading your imac to leopard, you could use MobileMe's BacktoMyMac feature; it works pretty well once u get it working (and unlike most apple things it takes some time to make it work properly)
 
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