Mounting a remote (not on same network) hard drive to another mac

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Mounting a remote (not on same network) hard drive to another mac

I'm trying to find out if it is possible to mount a remote computer/server's hard drive or share to another computer. I want to be able to exchange, create or modify the files. I know you can do a remote desktop but I'm not looking to share the screen just to mount the hard drive. I've researched many articles and keeps taking me back to various types of screen shares. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Sep 16, 2011 2:43 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 16, 2011 2:52 PM in response to Qwest318

Hello

Look for VPN , Virtual Private Network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network

wiki article about , if it make sens to your quetion

HTH

Pierre

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BobHarris

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Oct 1, 2011 7:11 AM in response to Qwest318

The 2 approaches I have used in the past are

Hamachi <https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/> which is an easy to setup VPN. Free for personal use on a limited number of systems.

And using ssh tunnels. While there are some ssh GUI interfaces that will help setup the tunnels, you will still need to do remote router configurations (port forwarding) that allow ssh connections from the internet to the target Mac. You could do some Google searching on "Port Fowarding ssh" and "Mac OS X ssh afp tunnels"

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