Cannot connect remotely to home computer

I would appreciate some troubleshooting help, with regard to my inability to connect to my home computer from my iBook, which is in a remote location.
At home, I have an iMac connected to DSL, using a Belkin router. I have opened up port 548 on the router, which is supposed to allow access to my files from outside the home network. I have also turned on file sharing in system prefs.
At work, I'm connected to the Internet via a Windows-based network (but using an iBook). I go to Connect to Server under the Go menu, type in the afp address of my home iMac that was indicated under the home machine's sharing prefs., but then nothing happens. Well actually, I get a message that the server can't be found.
I know my home computer is on (I made sure it wouldn't sleep), and I opened up the port that is for afp, so what could be the problem?
Thanks for your help.

Could be something with that port. Have you tried Remote Login through shh to see if that worked?
If you allow remote login, you can use SSH (Secure Shell) to log in to your computer from another location.
You can't use Telnet to log in to the computer.
Open System Preferences and click Sharing.
Click Services and select the Remote Login checkbox. Selecting Remote Login also also enables the secure FTP (sftp) service.
Now you can use an SSH client to log in from another computer.
For example, if your user name is steve and your computer's IP address is 10.1.2.33, you can open Terminal on another Mac OS X computer and type:
ssh -l steve 10.1.2.33
Type "man ssh" at a Terminal shell prompt for more information.
See this Apple page for more:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh294.html
For Personal File Sharing do this:
1. Be sure you are already connected to the Internet.
2. Choose Connect to Server from the Go menu.
3. In the Address field, type either the IP address or the DNS name of the computer to which you wish to connect (Note 4).
4. Click Connect.
See this Apple Page for more.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107369
Also you may have a OSX firewall on or 3rd party firewall that is blocking this port.
Personal File Sharing uses 548, and 247 for it's ports.

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