Can someone help newbie to set up ftp on Mac OS X (10.4.7)?

Question

I'm completely new to Macs and need help setting up an ftp account when using Airport Express. I would really appreciate it if someone would be willing to walk me through it. Many thanks.
Kathryn

Answer 1

Well 2 things:
1.) If youre using wireless then you almost have to be using a wireless router/firewall/base sation etc.. You need to go into that device's admin program and set up Port Forwarding.All traffic actually comes through this device first and is then routed to the computers attached to (wireless or wired). You can access this by using Applications/Utilities/Airport Admin Utility if its an apple airport base station, or by going to the devices ip address on the network if its a thrd party like Linksys or D-Link or what have you. This ip address is typically something like 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.168.1by default but you may have changed that during setup.Consult the documentation of your device for the username and pasword if you havent reset it yet. If you poke around you should see something about port forwarding... go in there and forward port 21 to your computer's local ip address (example: 192.168.1.2) .Sine most of these wont forward to a DNS name and since youre using wireless and will be loggin on and off alot i assume youll need to set up your powerbook to use a static ip address. go to System Preferences>Network>TCP/IP and choose either Static or Staic IP with DHCP. Enter the appropriate info which you can get from the Router Status page.
2.) Makes sure youre not giving your froend your local ip address. Which will probably be the one "Sharing" tells you t o give out.YOu need to give im the public ip address which will NOT start with 192 or 127... YOu can get this address from the router status page as well.