File Sharing Server Connection Gone

I am the designated tech person in my office. We just switched our ISP to Verizon FIOS from a DSL line. No one in the office is able to connect to the server remotely anymore. The addresses in the connect box are the same. It works at the office but not away from the office. Where do I begin to try to solve this problem?

Sorry, but Mark's solution isn't going to help here.
No one in the office is able to connect to the server remotely anymore
In what way are you trying to 'connect to the server'? Are you talking web service? VPN? file service? mail? something else?
When you changed from DSL to FiOS your public IP address changed. Did you change your public DNS records to reflect the new address? If not, external users are going to trying to connect to the old DNS address and not the new FiOS one. Even if you have changed it, DNS can sometimes take hours to propagate across the internet.
In addition to setting the DNS to point to the new address, you'll likely also need to configure port forwarding on the Verizon router to permit the protocol(s) you want to allow into your network. By default, most routers block all incoming traffic.
Beyond that, there isn't a lot of detail here to go on. If the above doesn't fix it you'll need to post more detail, including the domain name so that others can check the DNS resolution from an external perspective.

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I have been trawling through forums and to be honest they are totally confusing me. I have also spent time on the phone to the apple business team and have also discussed my objectives with a member of the apple team in store.
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Hi sblemings,
Welcome to the community.
I think with your scenario you should ask yourself, how complicated do you want the setup to be and how much time would you have to be able to resolve an issue should one occur with this setup.
All the options that have been advised would work but they come with complexity and therefore time.
1 - Using a mac mini as the file server and linking the 2 mac devices to this and backing up the mac mini to an external hard drive to ensure no loss of data.
2 - Using a time capsule as a file server and linking the 2 mac devices to this and backing up the TC to an external hard drive to ensure no loss of data.
3 - Using the new mac hard drive and linking the 2 macs via thunderbolt (old mac does not have thunderbolt and so I guess I would need another new mac?!) and then backing up the data to a time capsule.
4 - Using a RAID based server and linking the 2 no. macs.
Sorry to ramble but any advice really would be greatly received!
option 1
Would be a way to achieve what you want, it would centralise your files and you would only need to backup your file server (as long as all the files you wanted backed up were on it). This could be achieved either using the client and sharing various folders or using Server which would give you more options than you would possibly need.
option 2
This is exactly like option 1 except that you wouldn't have to administer another mac however you may limit any future growth.
option 3
This option I probably wouldn't pick, you could achieve this with firewire and use a firewire to thunderbolt adapter (saves you having to buy a new iMac)
option 4
This option would, depending on your RAID level, give you disk redundancy but remember you would still need to back this up, as RAID is NOT a backup solution.
I would also ask is there a pressing need to keep the old iMac in service and complicating things by having a server / NAS? Could you not just transfer all your information over to this and continue with the one backup? I would say that doing it this was would be the simplest way of achieving what you want from what I can take from your question.
As for remotely accessing your data, if you have the right hardware the way to achieve this would be to use a VPN and connect back to your data. However a potentially easier way for you ,would be to use a service like logmein or teamviewer to connect back.
Hope this helps, and by all means any questions please ask.
Dan
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AChatterjee wrote:
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user8869798 wrote:
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user11983096 wrote:
Hi fellows,
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IP Addresses are similar. One is ...101 and the other is ...102.
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http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96521/start.htm#7871
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