Re: personal file sharing, over the internet?

gasolineman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am trying to have some co-workers in another office building (not a
> part of my network at all) have access to some files on my machine. I
> am running Panther with PFS on... but when anyone tries to "connect to
> server..." it never works. I am sure I am missing a simple step, but I
> cant figure it out. Please email me some advice at gasolineman at
> yahoo dot com

Go to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services and ensure Personal File
Sharing is on.

Then go to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Firewall and check to see
that you've opened the ports that use AFS.

When your colleagues select Connect to Server under the Finder's Go menu,
they need to enter this: afp://your.ip.address.here.

If you don't know your IP address, go to this page:
http://www.whatismyip.com

K.
.

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