Airport extreme personal file sharing

Hello,
I just installed an airport extreme and it won't let me enable port forwarding to port 548 (personal file sharing). When I try I get an exclamation mark and I can't save the configuration. I'm certain this port is not being forwarded to any other device. I've successfully set up forwarding for other ports.
On another note, can anyone tell me how to use the remote configure option. What address or port would I query to access the router (airport extreme) remotely?
Thanks,
Greg

Test from a real WAN connection.. not a loop around via vpn. as it is hard to know where the problem is.. is it the vpn or the port forwarding.
Also it is hard to test from ipad as the only effective protocol to use is AFP on 548 and ipad is not able to do it.
Read Tesserax info on remote access.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3413

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Airport and personal file sharing between macbook pros

My wife and I each have 2.2 ghz macbook pros. I wanted to transfer about 30 photos from iphoto on my macbook pro to my wife's macbook pro; I turned on personal file sharing on my computer (the "host"), exported the jpegs from iphoto to my shared folder, and then used the wireless network to mount the shared folder on my wife's desktop. She downloaded the jpegs onto her computer from my shared folder but found that 5 of them would not open-- preview gave a message that it couldn't recognize the files. The other 25 photos seemed to open fine. I went back to my computer and e-mailed the same 5 photos that preview couldn't recognize, and my wife's computer had no trouble opening the e-mailed photos with preview.
Does anyone have any idea what went wrong with using personal file sharing and airport to transfer the photos between the 2 macbook pros? All software and firmware on both computers are both up to date. Thanks very much.

Not sure what went wrong, but there's an easier way ...
On the source Mac open iPhoto Preferences/Sharing and check "Share my photos" and "Share entire Library"
On the destination Mac open iPhoto Preferences/Sharing and check "Look for shared photos"

Airport Extreme Cards File Sharing

Can two Macs with Airport Extreme cards installed file share? Can this be done with only the cards and without a base station?

Yes, file sharing is the same regardless if you are connected via Ethernet or wireless.
Can this be done with only the cards and without a base station?
Yes you will just need to use on of the Macs to create a wireless network. See KB 166640, Setting up a Computer-to-Computer network.

Is my airport network secure with Personal File Sharing on?

I have my Airport Extreme connected to a cable modem. I have a G4 tower w/external hard drive connected by ethernet cable to the airport base station. I use a MacBook laptop wirelessly around the house to access the internet.
Each computer is set up for multiple users but we don't use passwords with any of our user accounts. I have Personal File Sharing turned on in both computers and am able to access accounts and drives from the other computer in the house.
I do have password protection (WPA/WPA2 personal) set up on the Airport network itself.
Does the fact that I don't have passwords on the user accounts mean someone outside of my home could get into my home network and access my files?
Does the afp address I use to access the other computer in the house afp://10.0.XXX mean it is restricted to people outside of my home?
Any guidance someone could provide is appreciated.

Does the fact that I don't have passwords on the user accounts mean someone outside of my home could get into my home network and access my files?
No.
WPA (with a strong non-dictionary password) is going to keep everyone off you network.
If they could get on your network, then they would be able to access your files.

Personal file sharing trouble

I have had a hard-wired vpn-enabled lynksys router connected to a DSL (PPPoE) modem network for years. Personal file sharing was easy. Just converted to wireless with an airport extreme over the weekend. I have an iMac, macBook pro, and a dell dimension that all used to talk to each other very nicely. However, with airport, no dice. I can connect to the internet over the wireless connection but cannot get personal file sharing to work to save my life. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Michael Bodily

Several restarts later and it is still doing it. I can connect to others, but this one machine doesn't want to go. Anybody?

Personal File Sharing and Kernel Panic?

I used Personal File Sharing between my MacBook 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and my iMac G5 both with Mac OS 10.4.9 and within the same AirPort Extreme net. Now both computers no longer find the other server after I unplugged all computers and the AirPort basic station during a thunderstorm. The program MacSysInfo which I installed today found the following kernel panic. It seems to me that the time of the kernel panic is the time from which Persoanl File Sharing is no longer working. The connection to the printer within the same net still works for both computers. What can I do to solve the problem?
Sat May 26 18:53:22 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A429B): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x00000008, CR3: 0x00d6a000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x038f5640, EBX: 0x00000008, ECX: 0x03adbccc, EDX: 0x14023d68
CR2: 0x00000008, EBP: 0x14023cc8, ESI: 0x12871360, EDI: 0x03adbc08
EFL: 0x00010202, EIP: 0x0015abfa, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x14023aa8 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb134 0x14023acc 0x131de5 0x0)
0x14023ae8 : 0x1a429b (0x3d0e4c 0x0 0xe 0x3d0670)
0x14023bf8 : 0x19ada4 (0x14023c10 0x31dbe80 0x14023c68 0x190ef9)
0x14023cc8 : 0x15c7f4 (0x3adbc00 0x190 0xb3200000 0x0)
0x14023d88 : 0x160505 (0x3adbc00 0x265000 0x0 0x38d7110)
0x14023df8 : 0x160bd2 (0xb3200000 0x0 0x38d7110 0x265000)
0x14023f48 : 0x1a450e (0x300e490 0xb3200000 0x0 0x3)
0x14023fc8 : 0x19acd4 (0x25c6660 0x0 0x10 0x336cca0) No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbfffabd8
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386

Thank you. I started to go through the hints but I am not through till now. I suppose I shall have to delete the hard disc and install the whole system new. But the time to do all the work will be not earlier than in two weeks.

Personal file sharing via a cable modem and AEBS

At home, my Internet access is provided by a Comcast cable modem. It used DHCP; however, the address I get assigned rarely changes. What I want to do is use my G5 and an external disk to back up files from my MBP while I travel.
I have a new AirPort Extreme Base Station which I use as my router. Is there any documentation available to download that tells me how to set up the AirPort base station to allow me to mount my G5's disks on my laptop when I travel? I know I need to enable personal file sharing, but how do I get the router to allow me to access my G5's disks from my hotel? I also want to access the disk drive that's connected to my AEBS remotely.
I can do this when I connect via my MBP to my AEBS wirelessly and it works great, but I don't know what to do on the AEBS to allow it to be done from anywhere.
Any tips will be appreciated.

Hmmm, don't have the "Extreme" AEBS here... Express or something, so it looks like this one...
http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Apple/AirPortExtreme/FTP. htm
And the setup has no "continue" button... just the ADD, OK, and then Update buttons.

Personal File Sharing - Shared Folders not found

I have a mbp and 2 iMacs. They connect to the internet through an airport extreme. I would like to share files between them all. I have tried using personal file sharing in System Preferences. I turned it on, on all the machines. I also turned on apple talk under Network in System Preferences. All of the machines can ping each other yet when I go to Network no folders come up.
Do I need to do anything with the router or any other settings?
Any help would be great. Thank you.

See the following:
http://www.apple.com/support/tiger/network/
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106461
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107369
Also select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu, enter the word "sharing" in the search field. You will find a listing of numerous articles on file sharing.

Airport Extreme USB Disk Sharing over Internet Without MobileMe

Hello
I just wanted to say I read this article http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/769126-airport-extreme-connecting-remotely-wit hout-mobileme/
and wanted to do what the title said.
So, I am able to share the disks fine over the LAN with both Mac and Windows PCs.
My Question is:
-some people have said that to map the disk over network, you need the AirPort utility installed onto the computer. Is this true?
-I am unable to access the disk over the internet.
I am wondering if I should configure the "Disks" then File Sharing section of Airport Utility or whether I should turn to the Advanced> Port Mapping section.
For the File Sharing Section:
1.     What is the username needed when trying to connect to the disk?
2.     Do I need to enable share disk over WAN and also the checkbox to enable the Bonjour service?
3.     What do I need to fill out for WINS server?
4.     Can I just mount the drive using the WAN IP?
Port Mapping:
1.     What exactly is personal file sharing? Do I need to use this to share my hard drive? And is it only compatible with Mac?
2.     Should I use the IP address 10.0.0.1 (default IP of router) as the place where I want to map to?
Thank you and sorry for this long post.

You do not need the AirPort Utility installed on your computer in order to access a shared drive from either a remote location or on the local network. This utility's primary purpose is for administering the base station.
You will need to both enable File Sharing and configure the AirPort for Port Mapping. It is pretty much described step-by-step in the article you referenced in the beginning of your post.
Ok, so let's go over the basic steps to see if anything was missed.
Start the AirPort Utility > Select the AEBSn, and then, note the IP address shown.
Select Manual Setup.
Verify that Connection Sharing = Share a public IP address is selected on the Internet > Internet Connection tab.
Select Disks, and then, select File Sharing.
Verify that both the "Enable file sharing" and "Share disks over WAN" options are enabled.
Verify that Secure Shared Disks = With a disk password. (Recommended)
Verify that AirPort Disks Guest Access = Not allowed. (Recommended)
Select Advanced, and then, select the Port Mapping tab.
Click the plus sign to add a new port mapping.
For Service, select the "Personal File Sharing" option. (Note: This option would only allow Mac clients to access the AirPort Disks. If you want both Macs and PCs to connect, you would need to leave this field at its default value and enter the appropriate SMB ports to the mix of ports to be opened.)
In the Public UDP Port(s) and Public TCP Port(s) boxes, type in a 4-digit port number (e.g., 8888) that you choose. In the Private IP Address box, type the internal IP address of your AEBSn that you wrote down in step 1. In the Private UDP Port(s) and Private TCP Port(s) boxes, type 548. Click Continue.
In the Description box, type a descriptive name like "AirPort Disk File Sharing," and then, click Done.
Click on Update.
To connect to the shared AirPort Disk from a remote location using a Mac:
From the Finder > Go > Connect to Server.
Enter the DynDNS-provided Domain Name or Pubic (WAN-side) IP address of the AEBSn, followed by a colon and the Public port number that you choose in step 11 of the previous procedure. For example: afp://www.mydyndnsdomain.com:8888 or afp://123.456.789.123:8888
Click Connect.
You should be prompted for your user name and password. The user name can be anything you like; the password should be the Disk password for the AEBSn that you created in step 6 previously.
Click Connect.

How to configure Airport Extreme AFP disk sharing to host multiple users' home-directories (Lion, using autofs)

I have this working, but only by completely bypassing access control, using guest access with read+write permissions.
Do I need to buy Lion Server, to do this. All my past unix/linux experience says Lion Server should _not_ be necessary.
This seems like a simple & obvious setup objective, but it is proving to be harder than I would imagine.
Setup:
multiple users, sharing two mac mini's running OSX Lion
connected to an Airport Extreme (4th gen) with a USB disk shared (either via disk password, AEBS password, or using AEBS user's passwords).
After much experimentation and web research, I finally have managed to get the mini's to auto mount the Airport Extreme's AFP shared USB disk. Well almost... It only works if, on the Airport, I set the guest access permissions to read+write and select the "Secure Shared Disks" method to "With disk password" or "with Airport Extreme password". In other words, it only works if I essentially bypass/disable access control by using the guest authentication mechanism to the AFP shared disk.
On the Lion side of this, I am automounting the users directories via "autofs". The config files for this are
/etc/auto_master:
# Automounter master map
+auto_master            # Use directory service
/net                    -hosts          -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home                   auto_home       -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers        -fstab
/-                      -static
/-                      auto_afp
/etc/auto_afp:
# Automounter AFP master map
# https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3336384?start=0&tstart=0
/afp/users -fstype=afp afp://;AUTH=No%20User%[email protected]/Users/
Then, after rebooting and verifying read+write access to the /afp/users directories, I change each user's home directory: In System Preferences > System > Users & Groups, I right-click over the users to access the Advanced Options, changing the Home directory field to point at the AFP-mounted /afp/users/Users/* home directories.
I experimented with alternate UAM specifications, as well as both OSX and AESB users & passwords. Using guest access is the only thing that has worked.
Any pointers would be appreciated...

Based on lots more experimentation which confirms the information in a parallel discussion (cf. Automount share as non ROOT or SYSTEM user! https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3221944), I have concluded that the Lion 10.7.2 implementation of AutoFS mechanism is broken. I submitted a bug report via apple.com/feedback.
Work arounds..?
Earlier I wondered if installing Lion OSX Server was necessary. The more I contemplate this, the more I am convinced it _should_not_ be necessary. The client-server architecture is clear: my mac's are the file-server client's and the Airport Extreme is supposed to act as the file server. The only thing instaling Lion Server would do (besides enriching Apple.com) is enable me to configure one of the mac's as the file server. This would require it to be "always on" (thus enriching my electric utility as wel). Okay, an additional benefit would be configuring software RAID disks attached to the Lion server, but Time Machine has worked fine for me in the past, backing up to disks mounted on the Airport Extreme.
One solution is to create a disk partition for each user and instruct each user to connect / authenticate to the Airport Extreme AFP share at login. The multiplicity of partitions is necessary since the first user to mount the AFP share, takes ownership of it, blocking other users from accessing that disk partition. A user can "steal" ownership by reconnecting, but this will leave the other user's applications & open files dangling.
This disfunctional situation really *****. Before instaling Lion, I put a 64 GB SSD (solid state disk) in each of our mac's. I did this expecting to easily configure the /Users/* data on external networked storage. I'm having a dejavu "Bill Gates"-ware moment; problems like this were why I abandoned Windoz.
I will make a few more experiments using the depreciated /etc/fstab mechanism. Maybe that will bypass the broken-ness of AutoFS...? Alternately, I guess I could also try to run Kerberos authentication to bypass whatever is broken in AutoFS, but that would require a running a Kerberos daemon somewhere. Possibly I could configure a Kerberos service to run on both my mac's (without installing Apple's Lion Server)...?
Stay tuned...

Personal File Sharing problem

We networked an iMac, iBook and PowerBook G4 through airport. Worked swimmingly until recently. Now the PowerBook is making difficulties. It recognises both other computers but fails to actually connect to them (just continues 'thinking' eternally while trying to connect). The other two computers don't see the PowerBook but still network well together.
Problem (I think): iMac and iBook in System Preferences> Sharing> Services Personal File Sharing is still selected, but on the PowerBook it was somehow automatically deselected. The PowerBook now refuses to start Personal File Sharing no matter how often I click on it. All other services (Windows Sharing, Personal Web Sharing etc) can still be selected, but that is not much use.
A known problem?
iMac PowerBookG4 iBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

It's system wide then. A reinstall of the OS will probably cure it. You can try an Archive and Install (choosing the "Preserve Users and Network Settings" option) but if the problem presists after that, a full reinstall (after backing up user accounts to another drive) may be necessary.
If you have an external drive, backup your user account Home folders. If you don't have one, backup important documents to CDs/DVDs prior to reinstalling the OS.
John

Personal File Sharing: Lost Connection

I'm trying to use my new miniStack external HD attached via Firewire to my Mac mini as a pseudo network drive. In other words, I want that drive available to my mini and my two iBooks. If I can get that working, I'd like it available to my XP box as well.
I have wireless internet via an Airport Express and cable modem throughout the house. All four computers are attached via wireless cards.
I've turned on personal file sharing on the mini using my administrator log in. I've also activated AppleTalk via the Airport settings in the Network preference settings.
I've also activated AppleTalk on my iBook and turned on personal file sharing.
All my Macs are running the latest version of OS X (10.4.7).
I restarted both machines after making the above setting selections. I then used the Finder on my iBook to search for the mini. I clicked on the Network icon, found 'servers', 'library', and the following folders: "home" which has my XP box readily accessible, "My Network" and "Workgroup". Each of these last has an icon for my mini.
When I double click on my Mini, it shows me all volumes on it, including my miniStack. I select one to connect to and get a beach ball followed by an error message saying "Server Connection Interupted: miniStack" and a single button marked 'disconnect'.
After I press the disconnect button (my only choice) I notice that personal file sharing on my mini is now turned off.
This exact same thing happens when I try to access the native internal HD on my mini so it isn't just the external stack that's the problem.
I've searched high and low through the fora here and can't find anything addressing this.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks and take care,
Jeff

After much trial and error, I finally resorted to doing a Archive and Install on my mini. After doing so, everything works great. I still have no clue what the problem was but I now have no interest in finding out since it's working great.
Of note, the lost connection problem was unidirectional. I had no difficulties logging onto and accessing anything on either of my iBooks from my mini. Just the other way around.
Take care,
Jeff

Personal File sharing doesn't work

I'm trying to transfer files from my G4 to my G5.
I've been successful until now.
All of a sudden my G4 will not allow me to enable Personal File Sharing.
I click the "Start now" button, and nothing.
I have also been having start-up and sleep problems as well as mouse cursor disappearing after sleep mode. Could they all be related?

I'm using a Network cable on the G4.
Airport card on the G5.
Aftermarket wireless G router.
As I said it worked fine just hours before. Now won't network at all.
I'm using an Apple USB mouse.
G4 will sometimes just freeze after chime and screen will not come up, or comes up very slowly. Mouse will often disappear after waking from sleep mode. Or sometimes it will not wake from sleep. I've removed all peripherals except Apple monitor and mouse.

Personal File Sharing Keeps Turning Off.

I have a second notebook, a Powerbook G4 Titanium 667 which is still amazingly useful for all but the most demanding apps and I regularly leave an external hard disk connected to this which I access by attaching to the G4 from my Macbook, via Finder, in the Server section. I authenticate and then choose the external disk volume and it mounts no problem.
My issue is that since a recent batch of software updates (perhaps a week ago), I no longer see the G4 in the Servers list. I returned to the G4 and found that Personal File Sharing was not longer enabled. I re-enabled it and locked the preferences again. I then see the G4 from my Macbook, connect as before and the volume mounts for a few seconds before being disconnected. I am then unable to reconnect. When I visit the G4 again, I find that the preferences are still locked but now Personal File Sharing is DISABLED.
I've not found any way around this, but console indicates that AppleFileServer failed. The crash report log does show the error. Here's the head of the file's last entry:
Host Name: powerbook-g4
Date/Time: 2008-04-13 08:52:48.696 +0200
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4
Command: AppleFileServer
Path: /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer
Parent: launchd [1]
Version: ??? (???)
PID: 6379
Thread: 4
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x00705000
I've found references to other apps causing this but no mention of this with a G4 / 10.4.11. Any advice appreciated.

Welcome to the forums!
Reading the title I was certain I knew the answer, but I've never thought to have anyone check or report the Log on this, soooo, maybe I don't know and this might be something different.
But usually this is fixed by dragging one or more of these files to the Desktop, Rebooting, setting up again... it may just be one, or many at a time needed...
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
/Users/nnnnLibrary/Preferences/com.apple.internetconnect.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
Then, if it's certain other kinds of connections, there may also be files like this...
/Users/nnnn/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.networkConnect.<ethernet MAC address>.plist

Personal File Sharing between Remote Networks

Trying to connect my Mac (OS 10.4.9) in one state to a Mac in another state (OS 10.3.9). I am connected to the internet via Airport. Second Mac is connected to the internet via DSL modem. With file sharing turned on, on both computers, and firewalls turned off (System Preferences: Sharing: Firewall Off), neither computer can connect to either computer via Personal File Sharing (I went to Go: Connect to server... Then entered the correct IP address).
Also, have not been able to use my computer as an FTP server (System Preferences: Sharing: FTP Access On) such that the second computer can connect via Cyberduck (FTP client software).
I know little about all this, but in my research over the last two days I am unsure why my efforts have not worked (for either Personal File Sharing or FTP connections). the following two Support pages on Personal File Shariing have not worked for me:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107369
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106661
iMac G5 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

What is a NAT router? Your suggestion to use a file
storage service as an alternative sounds like it
might be a good idea for me. It's just that the Apple
Support articles made file sharing sound so simple
(i.e. "This allows Macintosh computers in remote
locations to share files with any type of Internet
connection").
This is like saying the Interstate highway system makes it easy to drive from one city to another. It's true, but you need to know something about driving first. Similarly, you need to know something about Internet traffic.
To continue with the highway analogy, let's say your data is like a car. Actually, it's a packet with addressing information inside. The key addresses are source and destination IP addresses. When inside your town, or LAN, it's got local addresses. Maybe your computer is 10.1.1.2 and your printer is 10.1.1.3 and a car destined from your computer to your printer has a source of 10.1.1.2 and a destination of 10.1.1.3. This is like saying take a left at Main Street.
But there are maybe millions of Main Streets. Where this all changes is where we go out to the Interstate, or global Internet. Your router is your gateway to this traffic. It has two interfaces, one side talks to your locality and it has a number like 10.1.1.1, and another side which talks to the global Internet and might have a number like 71.126.45.113. As your car goes through this router, it's source number changes to become that of the router (71.126.45.113). This is so it can find its way back, and others can follow. The local address has no meaning out here. When it (or rather another car) returns, the router swaps the addresses back and sends it to the local network. This process is called NAT (Network Address Translation).
Now, the problem you find is that you can reach the destination router, and what you want is to get to another machine in that locality, but there is no local destination. You get to the toll booth at the end of the Interstate, but the toll taker doesn't know where you want to go. This is where ports come in. Your car has a number which corresponds to a service. In this case, the port is 548 and the services is Apple Filing Protocol over TCP. The toll taker know this. "Oh yes, Mrs. Johnson on First Street handles afpovertcp. Take a left on Main Street." This is called port-forwarding. You set the router to send requests for port 548 to the machine you want shared.
Another possibility would be to disable NAT. This has some drawbacks. If you have more than one machine, you may violate your contract with your ISP. You also open yourself up to certain attacks and need to be much more careful. There's another possibility called DMZ, but that's like disabling NAT for one machine.
I hope this clarifies things. You need to use the addresses of the routers, and forward the ports you wish to use. There's one more consideration: unless you have static IP addresses, those are likely to change. You can use a service like www.dyndns.com to use a host/domain name to connect your machines. It's free and easy.
Powerbook G4, iMac (Intel), and tons of hardware sitting in the closet Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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