NOTE 2: Port 548 is a well known port number, and it may get probed by a malicous Bot attempting to break in, so it would be best to make sure the account you setup for the other person to connect with has a good strong password. NOTE: The file sharing connection is NOT encrypted, so all traffic across that connection is visible to anyone capable of monitoring the traffic.
MAC FILE SHARING OVER INTERNET FULL
Or you have to give them your username and password and basically full access to your system. The Mac attached to the port forwarded router, will want to allow guest access, or setup a special account for the other user to connect to. , and then that IP address sent to the user that is going to make the file server connection. Getting the port forwarded router address could be doing using
This would be done using Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server -> afp:// The other person would then need to make a file server connection to the address of the friend that did the port forwarding. How that is done is different depending on the make and model of the router.
These other products exist because of the complications and security issues associated with rolling your own computer to computer connection across the internet.Īs has been mentioned, one of you would need to tell their home router to forward port 548 (the Apple File Sharing Port) from the internet to a specific Mac in their home. But then again, it is not trivial, which is why there are products like Dropbox, MobileMe,, ,, etc. but setting up a couple of macs to do this shouldn't be impossible.
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