Connecting to my base station/HD via the internet?

Forgive my general ignorance about this stuff. I have an Airport Extreme set up with an external HD and printer -- all seems to work perfectly. I'm using two laptop PCs on the home wireless network with great success.
My question: Is it possible to connect to my base station when I'm NOT at home, via the interenet? It would be very convenient to access files on the HD when connected elsewhere. I realize there are inherent security risks in doing this, but I imagine there's decent password protection, etc.
Can this be done? Haven't been able to figure out how using Apple's provided manuals. Thanks in advance.

AmbroseStafford wrote:
I tried to start Back To My Mac and get an error that it isn't working properly because of a problem connecting to MobileMe. I think it is a Certificate issue. Under the Securities section of my MobileMe account the .Mac Identity Certificate is flagged as expired (so is the .Mac iChat Encryption Certificate). The expiration of the certificate never seemed to cause any problem before. I've been using using MobileMe without an issue until I tried to start Back To My Mac.
When I view the security settings of my MobileMe account, I see an expired certificate from 05/08/09, but there's also a certificate that's to expire on 04/17/10.
One potential solution that I found on the forum was to delete the old certificate from Keychain Access and then start Back To My Mac again. I tried this but unfortunately it still doesn't work.
Any ideas on how to renew the .Mac Identity Certificate ?
What you need to do to implement your original request (involving access to a disk on your AirPort Extreme) requires changes to the configuration of your AirPort Extreme. Launch AirPort Utility, double-click on your AirPort Extreme to enter "manual setup" mode, then select the "Advanced" panel and the "MobileMe" tab. Enter your MobileMe information (taking care with capitalization), then update your AirPort unit.

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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.
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From the Finder > Go > Connect to Server.
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I'm considering getting a refurbished Macbook Air next week, which will be my first Mac computer ever, and I was watching some of the introduction videos.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/#wirelessbasics
'Wireless Basics' - At about 0:55 seconds in, it says something about needing what sounds like an 'apple airport base station' to connect my Macbook to the internet here in my home. I currently have an HP laptop that easily connects to our Wi-Fi. I actually need some additional 'apple airport base station' thing to connect to the internet? I can't just connect like our Wi-Fi PC laptops do? Tell me I'm hearing this wrong, because I can't afford some additional 'base station' on top of an expensive Macbook, refurbished or not.

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Connect to my home AirportExtreme/HD via the internet?

I have an external hard-drive connected to an Airport Extreme at my home.
Can I connect to this drive via an internet connection when I'm away from home?
+Note: I know about BackToMyMac but what I want to do is connect to the external hard drive attached to the AirportExtreme, not the hard drive on my mac.+
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AmbroseStafford wrote:
I tried to start Back To My Mac and get an error that it isn't working properly because of a problem connecting to MobileMe. I think it is a Certificate issue. Under the Securities section of my MobileMe account the .Mac Identity Certificate is flagged as expired (so is the .Mac iChat Encryption Certificate). The expiration of the certificate never seemed to cause any problem before. I've been using using MobileMe without an issue until I tried to start Back To My Mac.
When I view the security settings of my MobileMe account, I see an expired certificate from 05/08/09, but there's also a certificate that's to expire on 04/17/10.
One potential solution that I found on the forum was to delete the old certificate from Keychain Access and then start Back To My Mac again. I tried this but unfortunately it still doesn't work.
Any ideas on how to renew the .Mac Identity Certificate ?
What you need to do to implement your original request (involving access to a disk on your AirPort Extreme) requires changes to the configuration of your AirPort Extreme. Launch AirPort Utility, double-click on your AirPort Extreme to enter "manual setup" mode, then select the "Advanced" panel and the "MobileMe" tab. Enter your MobileMe information (taking care with capitalization), then update your AirPort unit.

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Have a Mac Mini. Recently bought my mom a MacBook. She's not tech savvy, so I configured her machine so that I can login remotely using the built-in OS X sharing capabilities. Configured both computers on my home wireless network, and got everything to work perfectly -- even the Chicken of the VNC app, which allows me to remotely control her desktop if there's a problem. Very easy to find and connect to her machine.
Here's the issue: Once I setup her machine in upstate New York with Verizon's new FIOS broadband service, I can no longer find her computer and make a connection -- no matter what IP address I attempt to use. Her local IP address is a generic 192.168.1.2 -- firewall is turned off.
Any general advice regarding how I can find/connect to my mother's computer via the internet? Using Finder > Connect, it merely requests an IP address, but I get the feeling I need to link to her router, then her local computer -- two IP addresses.
Sorry for lengthy question, but figure this is fairly routine. Maybe not. Thanks!
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I'm not clear on what you're using. Do you have Apple Remote Desktop (which is the subject of this forum)? Or are you just using VNC?
If you do indeed have ARD, in her router, you need to open TCP and UDP port 3283 and TCP and UDP port 5900 and then forward those same ports to the internal IP address used by her Mac. For encrypted file transfer (ARD 3, if that's what you have), you also need to open and forward TCP port 22. You may also need to open and forward TCP (and perhaps UDP) 5988 and 5989, though it's not clear under what circumstances this will be necessary; some people have reported those as being required, though Apple doesn't list them as being used by ARD.
Then in ARD on your end, you need to use the IP address that the router picks up from her Internet provider.
The procedure for VNC is the same, but you just open port 5900.
Forum Tip: Since you're new here, you've probably not discovered the Search feature available on every Discussions page, but next time, it might save you time (and everyone else from having to answer the same question multiple times) if you search a couple of ways for a topic, both in the relevant forums, in the User Tips Library and in the Apple Knowledge Base before you post a question.
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All my devices connect to a single base station, instead of the one closest to it.

Hello,
I have an Airport-based wifi network and it works great. The only problem is that all my devices connect to the main base station, instead of the one closest to them. This has created a problem because my house is large enough that I need the extra access points to extend my network. So when I go to another part of my house, away from the main base station, the connection gets slow. This is also a problem for my Apple TV. It is closer to my Airport Time Capsule, but still tries to get its signal from the main AirPort Extreme, making screen mirroring slow when playing a video. Right now I have 1 Airport Time Capsule, 2 Airport Extremes, and 1 Airport Express.

My Airport Time Capsule is extending from my Airport Express.
This is not possible.
The way apple extend works is a hub and spokes type of system. You cannot double extend. It is possible however to do a complex system with the express as a wireless bridge and ethernet connect that to the the Time Capsule. If you do such things.. slowness is a guaranteed part of the package.
Even double hop wireless will slow things down dramatically.. and for streaming video by airplay mirror is to be avoided. You need to use more ethernet or some hard wired alternative like EOP (homeplug) adapters.
The symptoms you described there are kind of the problem. This is especially a problem for the Apple TV. It makes screen mirroring very slow. I will try some of the diagnostic programs and see what I can find. Also, what difference would what channel they're on make?
I don't understand why the Apple TV is roaming.. surely you have it fixed in one place and plugged into a TV. The problem is not the ATV it is the other end device that you are streaming from.. if you are moving that around the house then that is wrong way to do things.
For screen mirror which is highly data intensive.. and often has issues with speed even up close.. you need both devices running 5ghz wireless in the same room with each other.. and you should setup wireless so that no extend can happen in this scenario.. it will simply not work over extended wireless. It barely will work over wireless at all. In fact you should look at either plugging in the ATV or plug in the device you are mirroring by ethernet.
Channels matter because they interfere with each other if too close.. or the neighbour uses it. Or you have a cordless phone or an AV sender or security front door TV system or a baby monitor or a zillion other things which all use the free 2.4ghz band.

Serious problem with base station and/or computer internet connection

Hi,
my powerbook does not detect my base station (another computer at home does, so the base station seems to be working) but it does detect other networks.
I have allready tried to reset the basse station (many times) but it doesen't help. Have tried to re-configure in Airport Admin Utility there is no base station (I cannot push configure) - when I push "Other" - it does not accept the base station password (have also tried "public" as they suggest in "help").
The same thing happens in Airport Setup Assistant: it does not detect my base station. It has happened before that the base station "disapears" and I could fix it now it seems to be unfixable. Can anyone out there help me???

Agnes,
the one computer connects wirelessly to the base
station and
works alright? Also the Mac can connect to the
base
station with ethernet and works alright?
Yes, thats correct
Then you should be able to access the base station two ways, from the Mac via ethernet or from the pc. I am assuming that your "pc at home" is a pc running windows (if the 2nd computer is also a Mac it would be even better).
Anyway, you can administer the base station from the dark side, you may want to check out the following:
AirPort 4.2 for Windows
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airport42forwindows.html
Check also:
XP users need to have WZC installed to administer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108049
If you haven't upgraded your pc to XP Service Pack 2.
As far as running the admin utility from the Mac, connect to the base via ethernet. You have indicated that you can do that and get to the internet, therefore you should be able to see the base station with the admin utility. If you are seeing your neigbor's that is wirelessly. But the wired connection Mac->Ethernet->Base-LAN-Port should allow the base to show up with a Name and an IP Adress.
Once in the admin utility for the base station (either by pc wirelessly or by Mac via ethernet) you can then make changes. You should be able to see the Base Station Name and the Airport network name. You can then change the channel: 1, 4, 7, 11 (try three apart from each other). Is your base set up to configure TCP/IP using ethernet, configure using DHCP (select the Internet tab at the top to get to this page)? On the Network tab page, is the base configured to Distribute IP addresses, Sharing a single IP address using DHCP and NAT?
As far as your Mac's System Network Preferences, you are not selected to Connect using PPoE are you? Are you set to "Automatically join an open network"? Are you configured for Using DHCP? To join a specific network (your airport network name and password)?
By the way, if RF interference is a possible problem, you can check out:
AirPort: Potential sources of interference
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58543
Gino
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Whichever airport you use.. express or extreme doesn't matter much..
It should be setup in bridge mode. Plug an ethernet cable from LAN port on the CGN3 to WAN port on the Apple router.
Go into the airport utility and run through the setup. Don't be too worried if it chooses the wrong setup.. you can go back and edit it after the setup is complete.
You will want to open the Edit.
Then go to the various tabs to ensure it is setup the way you want..
On the Network tab.. bridge mode.
On the wireless tab, create a wireless network.
I recommend you use names that are short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric. eg AEwifi In my case with Time Capsule I use separate wireless names for the two bands. TC24ghz and TC5ghz but that is up to you.. it can make life easier.. then set channels can also make things easier.
Ensure your IPv6 is setup correctly.
The actual internet option will be dhcp.
You will have two wireless networks.. but both will use the CGN3 as router.. the airport if it worked in the past should work. Even if it is not the dhcp server. BUT let me add there is another way to fix this if this setup doesn't work.. please post back your result.. no luck then I will show you how to setup a static IP with the Apple router.

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