Letting someone access my Web/Public folders via Internet

Hi... How do I let someone remotely (from outside my household network) access files on my computer to download via browser or ftp via the internet?
Any info is appreciated. Thanks!

You certainly would need to give someone the IP address, that's the only way anyone could find you on the internet. However, here's the problem: your DSL modem has an IP address that is meaningful on the internet as a whole. That is, the IP address of your DSL modem is an address that gives the location of your modem on the internet to anyone, anywhere in the world. Sure, it changes from time to time (unless you pay extra for it not to).
However, the modem acts as a gateway between your computers and the internet. The IP addresses assigned to your computers will be local IP addresses, meaning that they are only meaningful on your home network. This means that, although your DSL modem is "visible" to the outside world, all your computers are hidden behind it and, thus, invisible to the outside world. So, in order to access one of those computers, you must set up port forwarding on the device that has the "real" IP address. Port forwarding basically says "If you get network traffic on a particular port, send that traffic straight on through to a specific IP address on the local network."
Alternatives do exist, though they are primarily designed to allow you access to your own machine. For example, if you have MobileMe and two machines running Leopard, you could use Back to My Mac... but you don't want to give people your MobileMe account information and full access to your computer. You could also try [LogMeIn Free|https://secure.logmein.com/products/free>, but again, I don't think this is designed for giving other people limited access. LogMeIn may have such a service, but I'm betting it's not free.
What would probably be easier, if this is all too tough to wrap your head around or too intimidating, would be to publish the documents you want to share on a web site. If you have a MobileMe account, you can use that.

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We have a Exchange 2003 server and an Exchange 2010 server
The Public folders are on the 2003.
Since 2 or 3 days, there is a access issue in juste ONE public folder: SOME users cannot access to the folder anymore if there are in a group (it asks for a login and a password -> if the user enters them, it doesn't work)
BUT the issue is just for some users not all and there are in the SAME group.
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Hi,
From your description, I recommend you follow the steps below for troubleshooting:
1. Please run the Get-PublicFolderAdministrativePermission -Identity "xxx" -User "xxx" cmdlet to check these users' permissions for the public folder.
2. If they don't have the related permissions, please use the Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity "xxx" -AccessRights xxx -User xxx cmdlet to add the permissions for them.
For more information, here are some articles for your reference.
View Public Folder Administrative Permission Settings
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998587(v=exchg.141).aspx
Add Permissions for Client Users to Access Public Folder Content
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998834(v=exchg.141).aspx
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If you need further assistance, please feel free to let me know.
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Source: Apple Support Page "Mac OS X: About File Sharing"
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The Snow Leopard user... have her repair disk permissions and see if that helps...
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in our current project the call center employees should work only with the CRM web UI. MS outlook client should run in background, however, they want to access the necessary data out of the CRM UI.
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We've added two 2013 hybrid servers to our existing 2010 environment. Added the CAS role to all 2010 mailbox servers per ( https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249373%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx ) and currently have public folders (located on our
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the public folder list a credential window pops up and will not accept any set of credentials (even those of working hybrid migrated accounts).
We are following this method when creating new o365 accounts:
1) Make a user in AD
2) Dirsync the user
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4) Run on on-prem mailbox server via Exchange Management Shell: Enable-RemoteMailbox "[email protected]" -RemoteRoutingAddress "[email protected]"
5) In o365 Remote Exchange Powershell run: Get-Mailbox -identity "[email protected]" |fl Identity,ExchangeGUID
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7) Back on on-prem mailbox server via Exchange Management Shell: Set-RemoteMailbox "[email protected]" -ExchangeGUID <paste GUID here>
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Hi,
Please do the following steps to create an Exchange Online mailbox in your Hybrid environment:
Method 1: Create a remote mailbox for an existing user.
If you already have created a user in Active Directory, and the user has already been synced to online with license, we can give that user a mailbox in Exchange Online by using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlet Enable-RemoteMailbox on
your on-premise Exchange server:
Get-User “User1” | Enable-RemoteMailbox
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Method 2: Directly create a new remote mailbox.
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$Credentials = Get-Credential
New-RemoteMailbox -Name "Test2" -Password $Credentials.Password -UserPrincipalName
[email protected]
2. Launch dirsync and assign a license to the newly created user with Office 365 account.
Then Test2 can sign in, using his on premises credentials, and open his online mailbox.
For more information about the remote mailbox, please refer to:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ilvancri/archive/2011/08/24/exchange-online-exchange-on-premises-shared-namespace-how-about-mail-routing.aspx
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Cross-forest access to public folders Exchange 2013-2007

Dear.
We have an Exchange 2007 org in one forest and an Exchange 2013 org in another forest.
User accounts remain in the 2007 AD, mailbox moved to Exchange 2013 in the other forest, so a linked mailbox.
What do I need to do in the Exchange 2007 public folders to give the migrated mailboxes (not migrated users) access to these public folders?
Thanks for the support.
Regards.
Peter Van Keymeulen, IT Infrastructure Solution Architect, www.edeconsulting.be

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Do you have trust between Exchange 2007 forest and Exchange 2013 forest? Please set up a trust between the two forests. Then set the public folder client permission
to see if we can access the
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If not, since Public folder cross forest migration is not supported in from an Exchange 2007/2010 forest to an exchange 2013 forest, refer to forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/51da1b97-fbb1-4f81-87da-c3370960c4ab/crossforest-public-folder-migration?forum=exchangesvrdeploy
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/663f0dc3-a977-408a-93c7-94584fbefc62/public-folder-issue-cross-forest-migration-exchange-2010-to-2013?forum=exchangesvrdeploy
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Title: Migrate Public Folders to Exchange 2013 From Previous Versions<o:p></o:p>
Link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj150486(v=exchg.150).aspx<o:p></o:p>
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So for public folder migration,
the only supported path is cross forest 2007/2010 to 2007/2010 and then inter forest 2007/010 to 2013. Or
we can first export all the public folder to PST from the Exchange 2007 forest, then import the PST to the Exchange 2013 forest.
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Regards, Eric Zou

Cannot expand public folders in Outlook but can in OWA

Hi All,
I have a problem which I hope some one might be able to shed some light on. Firstly, the environment is Exchange 2010 (v 14.01.0438.000) and all clients use Outlook 2007. We have one user in the organisation who recently noticed that he cannot expand public
folders. He had been able to do so a couple of months back but could not pin point the time it stopped working. The error received reads :-
"Cannot expand the folder. The set of folders cannot be opened. The attempt to log on to Microsoft Exchange has failed."
I thought that this might be a permissions issue but this particular user can access the public folders via OWA. Also, my AD account was a copy of this user's and I can access public folders without issue.
I have tried the following so far :-
Tried running Outlook in safe mode
Tried recreating the Outlook profile.
Tried creating a new Outlook profile on a different client PC.
Tried running Outlook in cached an online modes.
Ran Exchange BPA and found no issues.
Checked ADSIedit for old administrative groups left over from past migrations.
used the test-outlook connectivity cmdlet from powershell which ran it's tests successfully.
This user originally set up all the public folders and was still listed as the owner of all of them.
Tried creating a new public folder.
Checked for an Outlook update that had caused a similar issue.
All the above failed to progress the situation. I have come across posts online that sound very similar, one stated that a Microsoft tech had found a permission that wasn't correct but didn't list which permission and the other related to an update to Outlook
that had triggered it. I can confirm it's not the update and I have checked permissions in the public folder management utility in Exchange. Also, my AD account is a copy of his and I can access the folders without issue.
I have also considered what may have changed on the network recently. The only major change has been a new admin password but I cannot see how that would be relevant.
Any help would be hugely appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

Hello John: We are having the exact same issue. Thank you for the great description, it hits the nail on the head for an issue that is tough to explain. Did rebuilding the mailbox fix the problem? We thought a next step would be to create a new
AD profile for the user all together, although replacing the user herself would be easier for us. She obviously caused this problem and will most likely cause us more problems that might be worse if she keeps clicking and sliding on every thing that
is shiny to see what it does..
I can only surmise that CaRa ChEn has decided to "better understand customer views on social support experience" elsewhere. I think the only logic for the mailbox suggestion would be "grasping for straws" and it is the only thing you have not tried
so far. (Other than replacing the user). Pactera employees get points for being the first to reply to a question and the first to have a suggestion marked as helpful as well as the sheer quantity of replies to the forums that are made. High
value is placed on moving posts to different forums as well so I thought I would ask quick before the thread gets shoveled somewhere else.. If she needs help with the interview project she can find plenty of my thoughts here in the community.
Thanks again, and we will reply back if replacing the user (account) does NOT solve the problem, otherwise one can assume we are happy campers again our new employee and remember just because it is blinking does not mean you should click on it. :)
Best regards,
RickkEE

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