I am trying to get someone to access my iMac outside of my house using AFP. I have a timecapsule and cablemodem. My iMac is using airport to connect to the timecapsule. I have file sharing set up - a specified folder is shared and a user and password is set to the folder. It tells me an IP to use in the file sharing section, but when they go to connect - it says connection failure. What do I need to do to allow people to access my imac via afp?
Awesome, I will give this a shot - I really appreciate your time and understanding - I love to learn new things, and I appreciate people like yourself who take the time and patience to share with others your knowledge!
I've learned an amazing number of things myself by my interactions here in the Apple forums and most of it was from folks like you. We're not really any different, I may have just had a bit of a jump start before you did.
Before you know it, you'll become the forum expert on remote access to Apple Servers and you will be providing your expertise to others as well.
Yeah Maybe - I love Mac, been in the print industry for a long time, back in the days when the Quadra 950's were the machine to own! I remember learning how to set up 12-18 input devices using the internal and external sides of the SCSI in the Quadras - I believe the only machine that was ever capable of that. I am considering obtainig a second job at the apple store, just for kicks, I can talk apple all day. I have converted at least 70% of my company over to mac - Makes my life easier as chief IT guy, I set everyone up to screen share to solve their issues, The PC users.....I stopped at Windows XP, I really HATE microsoft. Now my Big task is setting up a mac server out of my House - just have to pay for the static IP. My weakness is the networking - way over my head, I am kinda of understanding what we did here, but the whole DNS has me stumped. But I love the challenge and I love to learn new things, and I love Mac.
Instead of paying for a static IP, have you considered using a Dynamic DNS service like DynDNS? This service would allow your users to use a hostname instead of an IP address ... and this works perfectly with Dynamic Public IP addresses provided by your ISP. So instead of them typing in a randomly changing IP address, they would enter a hostname, like: yourprintingservice.com:5666
I have kind of considered it, But I would like to use the server to host our company's email etc., and I think there are problems with the reverse DNS making everything look like junk mail. I need to learn about dynds.com, I have seen a lot of posts and have yet to understand how it works. Looks like it is 30.00/year.
Yes, for things like running an e-mail or web servers, you really do want to go with a "business" grade service level from your ISP that provides at least the following three things:
You may also want to consider going with a "business" grade router that offers VPN, additional security features, and VLAN functionality. You can still use your Apple routers. For example, I use a Cisco RVS4000 as my primary and it feeds two 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Stations to provide my wireless network.
So why 2 Base stations? I have a Time Capsule and a Base Station and 1 airport extreme G and 1 airport extreme N, The 2 extremes are running itunes to stereos, but I have not utilized the base station yet, I think I could use it for something I was thinking of using it for my directv reciever in my room that has no internet connection, but was unsure of how to configure fo that use.
Question, Does the mac address = ethernet ID?
I needed to cover two floors, so I have a base station on each.
Yes, for wired connections: MAC Address = Ethernet ID; for wireless connections: MAC Address = AirPort ID
Your 2 Base Stations, are they both directly connected to your Modem?
A modem would only have one ethernet port on it, so it would not be possible to connect two base station devices directly to a modem. You would need to connect two base stations to another router, which would be connected to the modem as the signal moves toward the internet connection.
If by "modem" you really mean a "gateway", which is device with both a modem and router on the same chassis,, then you could connect two base stations to the gateway.
It's unfortunate that the term "modem" is now being used to mean just about anything these days. Most people who have a gateway, for example, call this device their "modem".
If Tesserax responds, I'm guessing that he'll tell us that he has a separate modem, which connects to his "main" router, and the AirPort Extremes in turn connect to the main router by ethernet. But, I could be wrong. 🙂 We'll see.
The two AirPorts connect, by Ethernet, back to a Cisco RVS4000 router; which in turn, is connected to a Motorola SB6120 DOCSIS v3 modem.
how do i get afp to work through timecapsule
