Remote access for Xserve G4 shared folders

I have an Xserve G4 OS 10.2.1 at my office and I want to configure it so I can tap into our shared file folder from somewhere away from the office. How do I do this? Do I need additional software? Can it be done at all? If so, is it more prone to being hacked into?

There are two ways of doing it. Insecurely and securely.
Insecure - setup port forwarding to allow port 548 through your router to the server. Now you can use the Finder on a remote machine to mount AFP shares on the server.
It's simple, but horribly insecure - anyone can hit the server, the link isn't encrypted and it just isn't the right approach.
Secure - setup a VPN and use the VPN client on the remote machine to connect to the office network. Now the remote machine is, essentially, part of the office network and can do almost anything that a machine in the office can do, including access file shares, print, etc.
It takes a little more setup, both on the server and the router, but it is far more secure since everything is encrypted, and it gives full access to the office network.
Check the Server documentation on setting up the VPN - it's little more than a few checkboxes in Server Admin, but you'll need to verify the router configuration, too.

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5294202?tstart=0
Something you should be aware of is the frequency of IP address change at your father's location. Providers of residential broadband services lease an IP address for a certain duration which you have no control over and is purely arbitrary. You may be familiar with these changes?
The point is sometimes these addresses change regularly (4 hours to every few days) and sometimes they stay the same for a longer period of time such as a year or more.
Because of the nature of this change you may find you can remote assist your father one day but not the next. The situation is easily rectified with a simple phonecall to your father. He can tell you what IP address he's using by launching his browser and clicking this link:
http://myipaddress.com
He gives you his new IP address and you should be able to make a successful connection again.
Be aware IP addresses handed out by ISPs are known as routable. IP addresses handed out by Firewalls/Routers/Gateway devices such as Apple's Airport Express Base Station etc are not routable. Assuming you've not changed anything in the devices they will always be one of these three ranges: 192.168.1.x; 10.x.x.x and 172.16.16.x. You don't use any of these last three group of addresses to make the connection over the public external (internet) network but you do use them when on the same private internal network.

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how do you disable remote access for mac routers

Hi, I'd never buy an Apple router again, but see if reverse thinking works here....
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3926392?tstart=0

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I recently bought a Mac Mini and set it up at home. It is running on Mac OS X 10.8.3, and runs on Server 2.2.1 and Airport Utilities 6.2. I would like to be able to access the Mac Mini server from outside my home. Does anyone know the procedure of setting up remote access (through SSH or VPN) without creating an internet domain name? Thanks!
I'm quite new to many of the Apple products, so it would be good if the answers are clearer and more detailed. Thanks!

As Barney-15E says, Back-to-My-Mac is the best option.
After that, try TeamViewer.com
ssh can be done, but there are setup details with respect to your home router to allow port 22 from the Internet side to your Mac mini <http://portforward.com>. And then you will need a dynamic DNS name from someone like No-IP.com or DynDNS.org so you can find your home router. Once you have that setup, you should make sure you use a good strong password, as you have now exposed a known port to the internet <http://xkcd.com/936/> and <https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm>. Don't forget to enable System Preferences -> Sharing -> Remote Login. So now you can ssh, but what do you want to do with that? You can create ssh tunnels for VNC screen sharing and AFP file sharing.
ssh -L 22590:localhost:5900 -L 22548:localhost:548 [email protected]
Now you have logged in and you have 2 tunnels. How to use them.
Finder -> Go -> Connect to server -> vnc://localhost:22590
Finder -> Go -> Connect to server -> afp://localhost:22548
Back-to-My-Mac and/or TeamViewer.com are easier

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Hi There,
I have spent an entire week of my time between apple, apple consultants and networking experts trying to get a access remotely to a simple database program inside an wireless network. I have read the discussions on remote access thru the AEBS and port mapping.
I'm hoping an user here can help me with a foolproof solution that the 'apple experts' can seem to design?
All that is required to get this program up and running remotely is the ip address of my computer inside my wireless network. I have set that this computer to a static address but since my dsl provider uses dynamic IP's this doesn't seem to work (or it does for about 12 hours until the IP address of my AEBS is changed). Will port mapping work for me or is my only solution an up-charged static IP?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions......the thought of spending another week on this is frightening!

If your ISP is refreshing the dynamic host configuration of the public ip address assigned to the ISP provided router you will need to request a static ip address from your service provider.
The addresses that are used "inside of your network" are private ip addresses. If you are using the (1) public address for your router (APE)(Apple airport extreme) from the ISP what you are trying to do will not work very well since your router (APE) will use the Public IP address to provide access to the public internet for your private network using the private ip addresses you have used to create your subnet and told your router (APE) about. Three private IP address schemes can be used for a private internet. One for each class. Class A 10.x.x.x/8, Class B 172.16.0.0/12 and Class C 192.168.0.0/24. Translated using dynamic NAT (network address translation with overload) making your LAN hosts using private IP addresses to seem as if they are using a public ip address allowing access to the public internet where only public ip addresses can be used.
PAT (port address translation) is what you are trying to accomplish. For PAT you must have a valid public ip address from your ISP and a private address from your network assigned to interesting host. Use the private ip assigned to the interesting host in the port mapping panel of airport admin that you wish to allow access to via the global internet as well as the tcp or udp port number for the traffic to be directed. For example port 5003 for FileMakerPro or port 20 and 21 for ftp. You should also implement security policies to protect your network and hosts.
Since you said that it works for 12 hours you must have the basics set up correctly. All you need now is to get a static ip address assigned to you from your ISP or use a service such as http://www.dyndns.com/
Hope I didn't ramble on too much

Disable remote access for Sony TV

How do I change the settings on a Sony TV (sorry can't seem to find the model number at this stage) so that remote access from an app on a mobile phone is disabled?

Hello AA1,
Greetings and thank you for your message. If the issue you are describing relates to a DNLA Server it can be changed through the network settings option on your television, for further assistance regarding your concern, we recommend to please contact the Sony offices/Sony representative offices nearest to your place of residence in Asia Pacific region by following the link HERE. Due to proximity, they are in a better position to respond to your questions or concerns regarding your model number.
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Hello there,
I have a dedicated Windows Server 2012 server, and I need remote access from a PC from a Mac OS X simultaneously.
Today, I use Remote Desktop Connection on the Mac and TeamViewer on your PC.
The problem is that the PC loses connection when Remote Desktop Connection is closed!
What is the solution for either the PC or the Mac or the two at the same time to access the server desktop?
Is there a setting that allows TeamViewer this?
Should I use or purchase additional software? if so, which one?
In short, what is the best solution to this problem?
Thank you!

We use RDP through VPN, so there is no forwarding ports, it is as if we are on the same network. This way, you do not have to worry about hackers, as you are in a secure VPN.
Are you doing this from a different office, from home, from a computer in the next room on the same network? What level of remote access are you looking at?
RealVNC is a good solution, but again, if you are outside the network, you will either need to go through a VPN to keep it secure, or open ports on the firewall. RDP will give you the ability to have two concurrent users (although with different usernames)
logged on at once. The limitation of only one user is a session limit on the computer itself, if one person is logged in as administrator, if someone else tries to RDP and log in as administrator, they will take over the session. This is
the same with other solutions. RealVNC is using a console session, so if another person uses VNC, they will see the already open console session, and possibly take over the others VNC session.

Need advice on fast remote access to Xserve

Does anyone know of a product for Xserve that is similar to Terminal Services?
We have people in other states that need to log in remotely and prefer not to use a VPN. Thanks

There is no direct equivalent to Terminal Services, at least as far as having multiple remote users run multiple graphical environments on the server. The Mac OS supports a single graphical environment, so even though it's possiblet to have multiple users looking (graphically) at the server, they'll all see the same thing, which is hardly conducive to them all working on separate projects.
That said, there are some options, but the viability depends on quite what you're trying to do with the server, what apps you're trying to run, and what problems you're trying to solve.
Either way, this doesn't absolve you from needing a VPN system. That's needed to secure the connection over the internet. This applies to Terminal Services just as much as to any other protocol.

Airport Extreme blocking remote access for my NAS?

Having spent over 2 hours on the phone to both LG and Apple Care I still can't get my remote access working for my NAS. I don't know much about networks, but I am slowly having to learn! Apple care seem to think that the AEBS might not be compatible?? I've tried lots of forums, lots of google self help and exhausted the customer service options - you're probably thinking I should give up. Well this is my last chance saloon - any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is my set up:
NAS: LG N2R1DD2 2 Bay DVD Network Attached Storage 2 TB
AEBS: MB763LL/A (A1301)
ISP: Virgin cable
Everything else on the NAS works a treat, it's just the remote access that is the problem. LG spent a long time on the phone looking into this and said that it is the router. I've checked with Virgin and they confirm they do not block any ports, so am pretty sure issue is with router. I've set up the NAS correctly to enable DDNS and UPnP, which it reports as successful and working correctly. I've enabled NAT port forwarding on the router, and tried to manually open up port 80.
Any thoughts would be most welcome.
Thanks.

I am not sure but I think you skipped a step. Look around for the use of consolidate library function.
I did the same thing and after I pointed to the right drive on the Airport Disk It worked flawlessly allowing me to stream to my powerbook from all over the house.
Unfortunately, once I went to bed and laptop and MyBook Pro went to sleep, I started havong problems.
Looks like this function of Airport n is still very Alpha.
Hope that helps

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Need to set up remote support for my Dad's iMac. He has an airport express connected to an optonline cable modem. I have an airport connected to a charter cable modem.
Both systems are running Mavericks. I have the latest remote access app.
I tried this a year ago and could connect to him when I was on his local network but not when I was at home. Since then everything has been updated. I will be visiting him in a few week and could do any set up on his system.
I read the admin guide but it's still to confusing to me. I am able to set up and connect to computers on my local network ok.
Will ARA be able to do this? Do I need any further software? logmeon, etc?
Any tips on creating a client installer to use when I am there? I will be using his user account.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5294202?tstart=0
Something you should be aware of is the frequency of IP address change at your father's location. Providers of residential broadband services lease an IP address for a certain duration which you have no control over and is purely arbitrary. You may be familiar with these changes?
The point is sometimes these addresses change regularly (4 hours to every few days) and sometimes they stay the same for a longer period of time such as a year or more.
Because of the nature of this change you may find you can remote assist your father one day but not the next. The situation is easily rectified with a simple phonecall to your father. He can tell you what IP address he's using by launching his browser and clicking this link:
http://myipaddress.com
He gives you his new IP address and you should be able to make a successful connection again.
Be aware IP addresses handed out by ISPs are known as routable. IP addresses handed out by Firewalls/Routers/Gateway devices such as Apple's Airport Express Base Station etc are not routable. Assuming you've not changed anything in the devices they will always be one of these three ranges: 192.168.1.x; 10.x.x.x and 172.16.16.x. You don't use any of these last three group of addresses to make the connection over the public external (internet) network but you do use them when on the same private internal network.

Having trouble accessing my Macbook's Shared folders on Windows 7

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Remote access for math Academic?

I'm a PC user definitely looking to switch to a Mac and know very little about them. I'm in Academia (in math), so I definitely need to work remotely.
1) What software do I need to install in order to be able to pop-up GUI and graphics from my MAC while connected (via ssh) to my unix server? The programs I use on the unix servers are: matlab, xdvi, xemacs, gv, xv, etc.
2) What is the best LaTex program on a Mac? Also, are there equivalents to the usual unix programs (xemacs, xdvi, gv, xv) on a Mac (do I have to purchase/download these)?
3) What's the best file transfer program (ftp) between servers and my Mac (via ssh)?
Thanks ahead of time -- sorry for the barrage of questions.

As for your second question, it's bash and the rest of typical unix under the hood. Invoke Terminal.app, and down the rabbit hole you go.
You can acquire and load the full LaTex toolchain, as well as the other tools you've referenced.
Some URLs, based on a quick look for a few of the packages mentioned:
http://homepage.mac.com/eric.lee/xv/
http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
http://latex.yauh.de/index_en.html
sftp and ftp are integrated into Mac OS X. The Apache web server is built in. NFS is built in. As for accessing a server, fire up Finder, open Help, and enter nfs or smb in the search box for information on using these protocols (NFS, SMB/CIFS) to connect to a remote server, or AFS if that's available on the server; on a Mac OS X Server box, or another Mac client. Finder can connect to all sorts of stuff.

Remote access for images

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I'm investigating the possibility of working remotely from a mac to another mac to process digital images using Photoshop. They would be pretty hefty files (50-60MB tiffs) and maintaining the colour integrity would also be necessary.
What options are available for macs? Is there something simple that only transfers screendumps & keyboard/mouse changes (negating the problems of working with such large files), or am I being overly optimistic?
Thanks a lot for your help
rob
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

so you want to access another Mac setup on a network far away and process digital images remote from another location?
sounds like what I did for 6 months on my advertising internship this past summer. In Michigan, at my job I had a Dual G4 MDD setup over a T1 and used *Timbukto Pro* to control a different PowerMac G5 computer in New York City at a professional Photo studio. The Art Director would fax me sheets of File names and what images were needed for the latest ad. I'd log onto Timbukto Pro, access the G5 in NYC and find the massive digital image files, process them with an App on that G5 Mac called *Capture One* once the Batch of RAW hires tiff files (20MB to 90MB depending on whether they were shooting people models or product models) were converted according to preset Image Stds, they were FTP'd using Interarchy to a local Image server at my companies location in Michigan, where I would then perform final editing, touch up, and layout in Photoshop and Quark Xpress. Then save locally. Low Res copies were used for Proofs which were then saved in PDF form, and FTP'd back to NYC so the Art Director there could see what the Art Director/Production Manager/Graphic Artists/ were working with. And if an Image wasn't right, they bugged me the Image Coordinator, who went back on *Timbukto Pro* and found new images from the shots the Pro Photographers kept on their G5 Mac.
that was basically 30% of my job of what I did every single work day.

Time Capsule as remote device for internet connection sharing

I'm doing tech support for my parents. They have a Netopia DSL/4-port ethernet router/wireless router in one room. They just bought a Time Capsule. They have three laptops: one PowerBook G4 with airport. one PowerBook G4 without airport, and one iBook G3.
The Netopia router is in one room (Room A).
Mom's two airport-less computers are in another room (Room B).
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As far as a wireless Airport Disk, it works. However, when I use ethernet cables to connect the computers that do not have airport, I cannot get the airport disk to show up for either of them. Network preferences for each wired computer shows that ethernet is connected but that it has a self-assigned address and cannot connect to the internet.
When a Time Capsule is set up to extend a wireless network, can you use ethernet cables to hook up non-airport computers to the Time Capsule? Access the internet from it (DSL router - wireless to Time Capsules - wired to PowerBook G4)? Access the Time Capsules own drive (It's not showing up as a server in finder when connected via ethernet cable).

I assume you have configured the Time Capsule as a wireless client on this existing wireless network. "Extending" the existing wireless network with a Time Capsule (ie configuring it as a remote base station) is not possible, since the Netopia wireless router doesn't support this mode of operation of the Time Capsule.
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My questions pertains to remote viewing of security cameras at my business from my home computer. I have a networkable DVR and would like to know the steps to follow to set this up. Can any one assist with the installation steps I need to take. I realize I will need to have my internet provider provide me with a static IP address which talks to the router, but after that I don't clear on the process.

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