FTP access to home computer possible?

Hi all,

I'm with Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder and would like to be able to access my
computer at home from when I'm on the road - but how?

Any pointers/ideas/advice?

Thanks

Markus

P.S. MacOS X 10.4.7

On 1 Sep 2006 16:57:00 -0700, "Markus Winter"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'm with Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder and would like to be able to access my
>computer at home from when I'm on the road - but how?

You would, obviously, need an FTP daemon on your PC.

Other than that you need some way of addressing your PC - either leave
your "modem" on 24/7 and "know" your IP address or use one of the
dynamic IP address DNS services like http://www.dyndns.com/

In an ideal situation, you should have a router that supports dyndns
and forwards requests to PC's on your LAN as required.

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Markus Winter formulated on Saturday :
> Hi all,
>
> I'm with Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder and would like to be able to access my
> computer at home from when I'm on the road - but how?
>
> Any pointers/ideas/advice?
>
> Thanks
>
> Markus
>
> P.S. MacOS X 10.4.7

How about www.logmein.com they do a free or paid for service.

In article <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
"Markus Winter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I'm with Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder and would like to be able to access my
> computer at home from when I'm on the road - but how?
>
> Any pointers/ideas/advice?
>
> Thanks
>
> Markus
>
> P.S. MacOS X 10.4.7

I use www.dyndns.com with my ntl connection to give my home connection a
static IP address. As the IP number changes so infrequently, I had to
use the static IP option (I got kicked off the dynamic option after a
month or so). My home router forwards the incoming requests to the
correct Mac. I set everything up ages ago and forgot about it.

Rather than FTP, I use the normal Apple File Sharing from work to access
my home Mac's folders and disks in a normal Mac-type way. In the Finder,
do Command K to Connect to Server, then type afp:// followed by the
server name dyndns give you.

For secure AFP connections using SSH, turn on Remote Login on both Macs
(Sharing control panel). There used to be issues with AFP over SSH with
previous versions of MacOS X and TBH I'm not sure what the situation is
nowadays.

See
<http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/f...ebruary/017917.
html>
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303871>

At least this thread has jogged my memory to do something about it!

On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:57:00 -0700, Markus Winter wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm with Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder and would like to be able to access my
> computer at home from when I'm on the road - but how?

1. Static IP (or static long enough (ntl) to be usefull).

2. SSH - very secure.

3. Putty for ssh.

4. FTP is not secure.

> Any pointers/ideas/advice?
>
> Thanks
>
> Markus
>
> P.S. MacOS X 10.4.7

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In article <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
"Markus Winter" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm with Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder and would like to be able to access my
> computer at home from when I'm on the road - but how?
>
> Any pointers/ideas/advice?

I look after a Blueyonder user in London, and they are NAT'ed
onto a private IP address, so it just isn't going to work.
Don't know if all Blueyonder cable accounts work that way.
You ideally want a provider which gives you a routable static
IP address (don't know if that might be an option you can ask
for).

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In response to what Andrew Gabriel <(E-Mail Removed)> posted in
news:44f95622$0$639$(E-Mail Removed):

> In article <(E-Mail Removed). com>,
> "Markus Winter" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm with Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder and would like to be able to access my
>> computer at home from when I'm on the road - but how?
>>
>> Any pointers/ideas/advice?
>
> I look after a Blueyonder user in London, and they are NAT'ed
> onto a private IP address, so it just isn't going to work.
> Don't know if all Blueyonder cable accounts work that way.
> You ideally want a provider which gives you a routable static
> IP address (don't know if that might be an option you can ask
> for).

Static IP isn't essential, do a search for 'dynamic DNS'.

Tried PCAnywhere? But this also needs a target IP address.

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"Markus Winter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed) ups.com...
: Hi all,
:
: I'm with Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder and would like to be able to access my
: computer at home from when I'm on the road - but how?
:
: Any pointers/ideas/advice?
:
: Thanks
:
: Markus
:
: P.S. MacOS X 10.4.7
:

Have a read here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VNC

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ACDeag <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>How about www.logmein.com they do a free or paid for service.
>
Ideal for Win XP not Mac OS X

Stuart Millington <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On 1 Sep 2006 16:57:00 -0700, "Markus Winter"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I'm with Telewest/NTL/Blueyonder and would like to be able to access my
> >computer at home from when I'm on the road - but how?
>
> You would, obviously, need an FTP daemon on your PC.

No he wouldn't. OSX comes with a ready-installed FTP server that just
needs switching on in the 'sharing' prefs. panel.

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