Thanks, Lee (and Henri). I will try this tomorrow and see what happens. I tried connecting after reading your email but without having checked the firewall port setting before I left the server at the office, and it didn't work. (I did write down the server's IP address and used that.)
Robert On 12/6/03 5:15 PM, "macgroup-digest" <owner-macgroup-digest at erdos.math.louisville.edu> emailed: > Appleshare/IP is what you want, and you don't need any extra software. > > On the server, make sure you have personal file sharing turned on and > your firewall has port 548 open. You'll also need to know the IP > address or DNS name of the server machine on the Internet. > > On the client machine, use the Go->Connect to Server menu item in the > Finder. In the Server Address field type > > afp://the_client_machine_IP_address > > and hit return. You should get a dialog box into which you type your > user name and password. > > I do this all the time from home to connect to office machines and from > my office to home. The main thing that can go wrong is a Firewall that > blocks port 548. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
