Remote Login help

[thedoobieman5]

Hello everyone,
I know it's possible to ssh into another mac remotely, but I was unsuccessful when I tried to do so with my parents' computer.

The computer I was trying to log into had the "Remote Login" box checked and I was provided with the address I was supposed to connect to (ssh user@xxx.xxx.x.xxx). However, when I typed that into the terminal nothing seemed to be happening. My prompt would just jump to the next line and I would never be asked for a password.

Does anybody know what I'm missing here?

Sorry if this is a basic question, I'm pretty new at this and I couldn't find this issue addressed anywhere.

Thank you

 

[angelwatt]

Are the 2 computers on the same network? If not, you'll need to connect to their router, and have the router set to forward port 22 to their machine.

 

[thedoobieman5]

Thanks for the reply. No they are not on the same network. How does one go about configuring the router? Is it done on the computer or elsewhere?

 

[angelwatt]

You'll need to consult the router manual. Each brand is different. You generally access it from a web page though from one of the machines on the network.

 

[thedoobieman5]

OK I'll do that. Thanks for your help

 

[jdechko]

You also need a way of actually reaching said network over the internet. I'm assuming that the remote computer is using a dynamic IP address from the ISP (as they are the norm). You'll either need to find that out every time (whatsmyip.org) or set up a dynamic dns client (either dyndns.com or no-ip.com) that will assign a domain name (yourname.dyndns.com) to your ip address.

I'm also going to self-link from another thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/9888598/