Access my home imac from work ?

Any ideas how I can access my home Apple from a work computer ? Is this possible ?
I don't want to use .mac!
how would I do this ? What would I need ?

yeah its possible, goto system preferences, goto sharing, start FTP access, then it'll give you an address to it at the bottom beginning with ftp:// , write this down and when you're in work, go into internet explorer (assuming you're using a windows computer in work) then paste the address into internet explorer and when it asks for a password simply input your username and password and there you go you have access to your files from work.
if you're using an apple machine to access your mac from home then click GO and goto connect to server and paste the address in there and enter username and password.

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Accessing my home mac from work

Help me please.
I have my file sharing turned on on my mac mini and the external hard drive attached to it. I am able to see the files and open them without any issues from my laptop. BUT it won't let me save the files. It won't even let me save it on my laptop. Plus, the mac mini has to be awake in order for me to do the remote log in.
Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is being at the office and able to access my home office mac files. Don't want files on both computers and all over the place beacuse that has messed me up in the past. LONG story. LOL
Any thoughts? I'm new to this remote login/back to my mac stuff, but don't really want to have the business expense of paying for such service. UNLESS I have to.

The poster said " have the business expense of paying for such service"".
However, TeamViewer is only free for personel use and the above statement indicates he want to use it for business use.
http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/currentversion.aspx

How to work on home iMac from overseas

Going to Portugal for 3 months. I need to not only access my home iMac but be able to work on it using a friend's MacBook. The specific application is updating a RapidWeaver website I maintain for another friend's business. Looked into some methods but they all seem full of land mines and this site is crucial to his business. Has anyone had any experience and ideally total success in this regard? Thanks!

teamviewer is a wonderful tool for emergencies. i would not recommend it for regular work, though, since performance over web can be quite sluggish. and after all, you are not with your machine. if **** happens...
i recommend to download superduper (it is donation ware, so initially free). using this, you can make an identical and bootable copy of your imac's harddisk on an external harddisk (best would be firewire, not usb 2.0). you then can take this external disk with you. when working on your friend's macbook, you simply boot from your cloned harddisk (not from the macbook's internal one) - and you virtually work on your imac, but on the macbook.
i am a pro filmmaker who sometimes needs to work on the go, i always carry a clone of my home desktop mac, even together with my macbook. saved my a.. already. ;-)

Just transferred data to iMac from working Mac Pro that is using Parallels and Windows 7 and the Biblesoft 5 and it will not open on the iMac the only change is the my new iPhone number is OS. Any ideas?

Just transferred data to iMac from working Mac Pro that is using Parallels and Windows 7 and the Biblesoft 5 and it will not open on the iMac the only change is the new Maverick OS from the macpro Lion OS. Any ideas?
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Setup Assistant and Migration Assistant do not restore MS Windows, it only does the OS X partition. All of your Windows stuff must be backed up and restore using a MS Windows application. If no one on this forum is able to answer your question then I'd repost it on a Parallels forum to see how other Windows users approach this.

Do they have a program where you can go on your home computer from work or any place else. if the do what is the name of it

do they have a program where you can go on your home computer from work or any place else. if the do what is the name of it

Try LogMeIn, even the free version...
https://secure.logmein.com/

Need to Give Access to my iMac to Work on this iMac Over Internet

I do eCommerce from home using my iMac on Mac OS Lion.
I want to hire somebody you can work from is home and manage all the task I do every day running this online store.
What are the SAFE options to give access to my iMac?
- I want to give complet access to my iMac
- Parallels is instal on my iMac. I use Parallels Desktop to run Windows 7 and Quick Books accounting software. This is the main reason I want to give access to my iMac because most task are done online using email and my online store platform.
My goal is to have access to all my informations when ever I need and supervise this employes.
I tried ScreenSharing, I don't think it can do the job. It is ok to connect to a another computer to fix something, but to use everyday, it looks slow.
How about Lion Server? Can it do the job?
What those thise involve? Buy another mac and installing my accounting software on it?
What are the cost to have a small server? The smallest.
Can I set this uo myself?
I found Open VPN on the internet, would it be a good option?
New to VPN, is it easy to setup my computer?
Is it safe?
Anything I should know about creating this kind of network?
One last thing, I have this old PowerBook G4, do you thing this employe can connect to my imac using this laptop? If yes, does I need a special vesrion of Mac OS to make this work?
Thank you for your help.
BigBlaze
PS: if QuickBooks was a online platform, thing will have been much more easy

You are going to need a server of some type, web server, that you or your emplyees can connect to, concurrently, over a VPN connection.
I really don't thing this is the forum for this type of thing.
Good luck and best wishes.

Need help connecting to my home computer from work

Hi, I am trying to connect to my home computer from my work computer, but I am not able to connect to it. I do CMD+K (from work) and type in the IP address (with & without smb:// &/or afp://), but home computer does not show up or the connection times out. My home computer is awake and file sharing & remote login are on. My home computer is an Imac 20" Intel Core 2 Duo connected via cable modem @ 12mbps running 10.5.2. My work computer is a Power Mac G5 Duel 2.7 running 10.4.11. Am I not able to connect because of the OS difference? Any help would be appreciated.
p.s. Sorry if this is a repost, but I couldn't find any posts with questions like this. Thanks.

"Screen Sharing" needs to be turned on. "Allow access" needs to be configured properly.
Can you connect to you computer from the office via command K using afp? Does the login window come up? What kind of a network do you have at the office? Are you behind a firewall there or is it a direct connection? (one of our labs at my university is tied down so tight you can't connect to any ip addresses outside the firewall unless the IT administrator puts that ip address into his little magic box,)
Last week I was using my laptop to connect with a computer across the hall. It would not recognize the ip address. I rebooted the laptop and it started working.
If you have the correct ip address and your office network is not behind some kind of heavy duty vpn firewall it may be your router at home.
Of course maybe Rush Limbaugh made a real point today in calling for Steve Jobs to recognize there are some bugs in Leopard and fixing them.

Acessing Home Network from work

If i want to access my home network when i'm at work... what all is involoved in that?

Hi:
What services are you running? Who do you want to be able to access them? How "tight" do you want your security to be?
I run a small personal email server at home, along with afp services, vnc, and ssh. To do that, I require all users to tunnel all desired services over ssh protocol 2.
To do that, basically, I open one single port in the DSL modem and forward that port to the computer hosting those services. You may or may not have to use static IP routing on your internal LAN 192.168 network for port forwarding, depending on how new/fancy your DSL/cable modem is. If you wanted to allow ssh to multiple computers, you'd have to ssh in on a non-standard port on at least one of them, which you can tell the DSL/cable modem to "cross-strap" to port 22 inside the LAN. I don't see why if you came in from the outside on two different ports, that you couldn't cross-strap one port to one of your internal 192.168 IP addresses on port 22, and cross-strap the other port to the second internal 192.168 IP, also port 22.
Then, add a line to each user's .bash_login files on their remote computers that says something like
alias phoneHome='ssh -l {homeShortUserName} -L 5901:127.0.0.1:5900 -L 3238:127.0.0.1:3238 -L 5548:127.0.0.1:548 -L2525:127.0.0.1:25 -L 1143:127.0.0.1:143 {yourDomainName}
Now, each user launches Terminal, types phoneHome and gets an encrypted channel for VNC (first two "-L" port forwards), afp file sharing, smtp mail services, and imap mail services. And it's all encrypted. I would also recommend taking a look at http://www.corsaire.com/white-papers/050819-securing-mac-os-x-tiger.pdf.
After the user has "phoneHome'd," (s)he can launch Mail, ChickenoftheVNC, or ⌘k in Finder to start AFP. Your users' remote computers' Mail would use 127.0.0.1 as the imap and smtp server, ports 1143 and 2525 respectively, to access the server mail account set up there. To connect afp, the remote user would connect to 127.0.0.1:5548. To connect to vnc session, remote users would connect to 127.0.0.1:5901.
The hosting Mac (at home) would need to have VNC andARD services enabled (btw, VNC is pre-defined as an "other" "new" service when you add it in SysPrefs Sharing Firewall), and apple file sharing, and remote login (ssh) enabled in the Sharing Services tab. In the firewall tab, you would need to add smtp (port 25 TCP) and imap (port 143) and/or pop (port 110) if you are going to run a mail server. You don't need SSL if you tunnel over ssh. I prefer this approach because if you use public/private key exchange for ssh login (basically, like an automated PGP authentication), that is, to me, way more secure than password authentication, and it's two less ports you need open for universal access.
To get mail from other smtp servers, I recommend you get mailhop relay by dyndns.com. It costs $40 a year, and whenever anybody sends mail to your domain, it gets routed through them first, where they spam-assassinate it and virus-scan it before forwarding it on to you. The other advantage is that then, when you open port 25 in your router, you can restrict that port to only be accessible to traffic coming from dyndns' several mailhop relay smtp servers' IP addresses. Helps to cut down on the hack attacks by intruders coz a port scan from any other IP address will show the port as closed. MailServe, by cutedgesystems.com, is a GUI frontend for Mac's built-in postfix, and it also includes uw-imap. It lets you get an imap(or pop)+smtp mailserver up and running in literally minutes for only $20.
If you don't get a static WAN IP address assignment from your ISP, get dyndns.com's DynDNSupdater program (the same guys that have the mailhop services). Then, whenever, your ISP changes your DHCP-assigned WAN IP address, dyndns.com's DNS servers are updated with your new IP address, so your domain name can always be resolved. They offer a number of variations of TLD's for your domain name for free, or you can pay them for a custom one. But I don't have a problem with a domain name like jv.dyndns.org. But they've got a lot of others, like isageek.net and some other goofy ones. There are other programs like DynDNSupdater, but I am only familiar with dyndns. One thing is for certain, to me anyways, and that is being able to operate DHCP from your ISP is better than paying monthly premium for a static IP assignment from your ISP.
I mentioned mailhop relay earlier -- if you are going to be dynamic WAN IP from your ISP rather than buying a static WAN IP address, and are going to be running that mailserver, and you bought mailhop relay, you will probably find yourself wanting to buy another service from them for as little as $10/yr called mailhop outbound (pricing depends on amount of outbound mail traffic). Outfits like roadrunner.com and aol.com block smtp requests coming from servers whose domain names reverse-dns to dynamic IP space. So your users might not be able to send mail to aol or rr.com people, and others, without a service like this. Still, $10/yr is better than $5-$10/mo for a static WAN IP.
Digressing somewhat, if you are going to be running your own webserver, open to the public, you'll need to open port 80 on your DSL/cable modem (and in Sys Prefs Sharing Services) and forward that port to the computer hosting the web server, too. And, as Karl said, if running multiple webservers, you'll need multiple ports open in the modem, cross-strapped to port 80 of the appropriate server.
Last but not least (well, at least last for this post!) I would recommend installing a network intrusion detection system. One is available that comes pre-compiled for Mac OS X client, called HenWen. It is a GUI front-end for Snort, which comes included with HenWen (it's not the most recent version of snort, and it doesn't install snort in the usual default location that snort would, instead being contained within the HenWen application, but I still recommend it). Fairly easy to set up, although since the last version of HenWen came out, snort has added rule sets for spyware, so you need to add a rule for that in HenWen's GUI. Sign up for a free account at snort.org, so you can get the latest NIDS rulesets. It doesn't block bad things before they happen, but at least it lets you know that suspicious activity occurred after the fact -- which is way better than being totally oblivious.
And I guess I lied, this is actually the last thing: if your work's IT dept is like mine, they keep just about ALL destination ports closed. So you may need to try to telnet {yourDomainName} {port#forDesiredService} just to make sure that your IT dept allows outbound traffic to go to the desired destination ports on your home network, or use Tiger's provided Network Utility to port scan your home's network's desired ports.
(if this solves your problem, or is actually helpful towards arriving at a solution to your problem, please consider marking this reply as "helpful" or "solved," in addition to, if applicable, marking this question as "answered")
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Syncing music from home & outlook from work

I just synced my iphone with itunes and outlook from work but since I keep all of my music at my home computer that is where I want to grab music from. When I tried to sync to my home computer I got a message that says that the phone can only be synced to one itunes and gave me an option to erase my last sync and re-sync. I do not want to lose my email and outlook calender from work so I chose not to re-sync. Is it possible to use my music from my home computer & and my calender from work or do I need to bring my music library to work and add music there?

This is entirely possible and in fact, what I do on a daily basis (sync outlook from work and music from home).
It's all about checking and unchecking the right boxes on each of the tabs within iTunes. At work, you must uncheck ALL boxes except for the ones for outlook on the info tab. You cannot SYNC media (music, video, ringtones etc) from more than one computer - but you can SYNC contacts/calendar etc from one and media from another.
1. uncheck auto sync and uncheck sync when iphone is plugged in
2. at home, uncheck any boxes on the info tab
3. check music / video checkboxes on respective tabs and sync
You should be able to sync these.
IF, at work, you synced anything from the media tabs then you will get the error you did and have to erase it all.
At work:
1. check the calendar/contacts boxes on the info tab
2. UNCHECK all boxes on media tabs (ringtones/music/movies/etc)
3. Uncheck auto sync on iphone connect
4. you should be able to sync these.
Like I said, I do this everyday (updating my calendar from work on my phone and music/movies when I get home). It's all a matter of checkboxes and checking and unchecking the right ones.
Hope this helps.

I can't access my university VPN with my iPad or iPhone but I can access it with my Mac. I was wondering if there is a simple way so that I can remotely access my home computer from the iPad, turn on the Mac VPN and then access the school network?

The iosx and open VPN app on the iPad/phone aren't compatible w my school's VPN, but my Mac is via tunnelblick. I would really like to have VPN access from my tablet so I can access journals without undergoing a tedious process.
Has anyone encountered this and found a remedy? I'm imagining an app from the tablet that can access the Mac at home to turn on the VPN to the school and then have access.. But then I'm thinking id be reading through 2 screens then formatting/resolution could be a problem.
Another thought was setting up a VPN at home so that my iPad can connect to my computer at home via VPN which would then allow me easy access to journals. But I'm lacking experience in this, especially a security issue as I'm going from point A to point C to get back to point B.
I'm open to any suggestions.
Thanks

You should be able to use the OpenVPN Connect app running on your iPad to connect your iPad to the VPN directly. It is an official OpenVPN client for iOS devices.
In what way is it "not compatible"? Have you tried it? Tunnelblick is an OpenVPN client, so your school's VPN is using the OpenVPN protocol. That means any OpenVPN client should be able to access it. (It is possible, but unlikely, that your school uses encryption that is not available on the iPad, but that would be very unusual.)
Otherwise, a remote control app on your iPad would let you control your Mac at home. "Back to My Mac", for example, would allow you to control your Mac remotely. The tricky part of this is that usually a VPN is set up to send all Internet traffic via the VPN server, and I'm not sure how that would work with "Back to My Mac".

[SOLVED] Can't access my home server from the outside

Hi all,
I have installed Arch on a Raspberry Pi and am trying to set up a home server. Right now, I am running a simple HTTP server (using node.js, if that matters) on port 8080. From my LAN, I can access the server all right.
From the outside, it seems that the traffic does actually reach the computer (I conclude this from the blinking diode indicating network traffic). However, all requests time out. Interestingly, if I kill the server while a request is pending, the timeout occurs right away.
I have no idea what is causing this. I have checked for iptables rules, but there seem to be none. What is blocking the traffic and how can I find out?
EDIT: Nevermind, I was testing incorrectly -- the traffic did reach the Raspberry Pi, but the return traffic did not reach my test computer because it was blocked by the router's firewall. Testing from TOR works just fine.
Last edited by MrAllan (2013-12-24 12:01:42)

I too am having problems accessing Directory server from Netscape Console installed on Winxp.
If I try to open Directory server it doesn't give any error. No windows nothing.
If I try th same from the machine on which it is installed everything is fine. What is strange is that it did open a couple of times. But at the same time I can open the admin server, Netscape Messaging server from the xp box. Searching all over for a solution. Any help/pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Config details:
iDS4.13, iMS 5.0, running on Sol 8 box
Netscape Console 4.2 on WinXP.
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Can ssh to my home MBP from work, but cannot make outbound connections

Details:
I have a MBP with a wired ethernet connection on my home network, and a 24/7 file server that I can access via SSH from outside my firewall, so I can ssh to my fileserver, then ssh to my MBP from it:
(I use a python script on the fileserver to send WakeonLAN packets to the MBP to rouse it from sleep before ssh'ing to it.)
WORK --ssh--> Fileserverbehindfirewall --ssh--> MBP
Once signed onto my MBP I can do normal unix stuff and I can ping external addresses, but any application that tries to access external addresses hangs.
For example, running wget {URL} hangs, and 'sudo gem update' hangs as well.
I figure that there is some kind of application firewall blocking going on, but I don't know enough about OS X internals to have an idea where to look.
When I get home and log on locally, I can run these same apps from Terminal with no problems, so I figured that connections from Terminal.app are allowed, but those from a raw tty session via SSH are not???
Any pointers or ideas very welcome.
Tom P. (Old Linux guy, new Mac Guy)

"deh2k" is correct. Ssh or using Terminal local should see the same behavior.
I would very much suspect LittleSnitch. This is a case where you might try something from the local terminal and see if LittleSnitch displays a pop-up asking if you want to allow the action. You would not see this pop-up from a remote location.
And of course turning off LittleSnitch is another way to go.
Or as part of establishing your ssh connection, you also create a Screen Sharing/VNC tunnel
ssh -L 5901:localhost:5900 [email protected]
this of course assumes you have started the Screen Sharing on your remote Mac.
Now you connect using Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server...
vnc://localhost:5901
and now if LittleSnitch is going to complain, you should see it via the Screen Sharing session.
Of course, you could also use the Screen Sharing session to just do what you want via a GUI interface

Accessing my home ATV from my Office

Is there anyway I can access my ATV, that is connected to my home wireless network from my remote locations, particularly from my office.
Would like to download movies during the day and have ready to view when I get home.
Thx Much

Cubbie, (we waited 86 years, I am sure salvation for the Cubs will come soon)
Thx much on the info.
I actually have my laptop (Mac) with me at work and was hoping I could access my ATV from my Mac at the office.
ATV is great, just takes some time to wait for a downloaded movie. And would be neat to be able to access my ATV remotely to have it go get a movie or to save a movie I download at the office to my ATV at home.
Go Cubs & Sox (Red).

I am unable to log in to my home IMac from a different computer with my apple ID, and would like to know how to do so

I am unable to access my IMac in New York from my sister's IMac in California using my Apple User name and ID. What must I do
to be able to see my mail, access my Itunes account, etc. What steps must I follow?

If you want to create a new account make sure you sign out of everything via the settings. (ICloud, iTunes, facetime, messages, etc) APPS: since the apps were downloaded with a different apple ID, you will always need to use the password for the apple ID that downloaded that particular APP when it needs to be updated. Unless it is free, you can simply delete it and download it under the new apple ID. As for the music, you can keep it on the IOS device, but if it's accidentally deleted, you'd have to sign back into the original account and download from the cloud. (But, you risk getting the 90 day lockout. )

Will I be able to access my home sharing from my laptop if desktop is in storage for a few months ?

My desktop will not update iTunes. Running WinXP. Enabled home sharing and all is well on my laptop (Win7). I'm relocating out of state. Staying with family until I get on my feet for a few months. Desktop will be in storage. Will I still be able to access my purchased music on my laptop although my desktop is boxed up somewhere else? I was able to transfer CD installed music to laptop thru a flash drive.

Hi Finewhitesugar,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on the exact nature of your question. Home Sharing allows you to both stream and transfer music between computers, as noted in the article below. You should be able to play any music that you transferred from your desktop to your laptop prior to storing it, but would not be able to stream anything while the desktop is off and in storage.
Understanding Home Sharing
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
Other options would include redownloading any previous purchases directly from the iTunes Store to your laptop and/or using iTunes Match. You may find the following articles helpful:
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Apple - iTunes Match
https://www.apple.com/itunes/itunes-match/
Regards,
- Brenden

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