change afp port

if I understand you correctly, you want to afp TO your Mac from the outside, right?
I don't know how to change the defaults but you can enter

afp://your.macs.address:7777

that will initiate an afp session with the port 7777 on the target computer. That number can be changed of course.

sorry, you are right, this doesn't seem to work. It works with localhost when I make an ssh tunnel so I thought it should work remotely like this but it doesn't seem to.

I found some [page|http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=5118&sid=ddb541ba5b452c23c048f2e a243e3ab5] which claims to give a procedure to change the default afp port. Look at the very last post there. You can try it and see if it works.

dolmayan wrote:
Unfortunately and unexplainably my ip is banned and I can't get in that forum.

most bizarre.

Can you please paste here what's written?

Thanks in advance

Here is the relevant snippet:

*here is how you do it on a OSX client machine*

*-open the file library/preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist in Property List Editor (you can use textedit too, it is an xml file)*
*-change the value of afpTCPPort from 548 to your port of choice*
*-save the file back to library/preferences/*
*-goto the sharing prefpane in system preferences and turn personal filesharing off and back on*

Mind you, I have no idea if this will actually work.

Message was edited by: V.K.

BTW, yuo can always get around your isp ban using a free proxy.
Try www.vtunnel.com

I believe Apple is moving everything to the Services file. It is located at /etc/services. I used this to change my ssl port. The list is organized by port number, so just scroll down until you find afpovertcp and change the port numbers to what you want. If V.K.'s post doesn't work, try changing the services file.

Unless I'm missing something, I don't think you have to change the AFP listening port on your Mac. Say you have Mac A and Mac B both listening on port 548. Configure the port mapping on your router so that port X (say 548) goes to 548 on Mac A and port Y (say 7777) goes to port 548 on Mac B.

Then use afp://your.routers.address to get to Mac A and afp://your.routers.address:7777 to get to Mac B.

This all assumes that you ISP allows incoming requests to these ports.

Message was edited by: deh2k

that was my first suggestion (see above) but apparently, it didn't work.