connecting from home (mac) to office (pc)

This section is for any issues on setting up or configuring networks at home and small business.

Moderators: Edward, Don_HH2K

connecting from home (mac) to office (pc)

Postby esquirefox007 » Tue 24 Feb, 2009 6:40 pm

hi i have a couple of questions and i like to seeif anyone can give me some advice and maybe a tutorial on how to do this

i have my imac and my macbook at home and when i travel i take my laptop.

So here is my conundrum

i like to know how can i connect or set up my mac so it can from home set up my shared folder i can connect my mac to my pc from a home network but i don't know how to dit from my home to my work please if anyone can help me.

My other issue is this if i set up a this network from home to my work and im uploading my files to my mac can my ISP look at my content?

sure i set up an ssh tunnel .

this is my set up

1.mac>wifi>isp>internet
2.pc>router>dsl>isp>internet

trying to acomplish.

mac>wifi or lan>isp>internet>(my content<)internet<isp<dsl<router<pc

(----------------SSH TUNNEL--------------)

let me know if anyone can help .

thanks in advanced
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1
esquirefox007
new member
new member
 
Posts: 3
Joined: Sun 12 Feb, 2006 2:40 pm

Postby Don_HH2K » Tue 24 Feb, 2009 8:49 pm

The easiest way I can think of doing this is through a virtual private network, or VPN, then have both the PC and the Mac connect to the VPN, and share files normally.

As for whether your ISP can monitor your activity, this depends on the type of link you create. An ssh session is encrypted; therefore activity cannot be distinctly monitored: while your ISP can determine that you are connected to another PC, they cannot actually see what's going on. The same goes for any encrypted VPN such as OpenVPN, which has clients for both Windows and Mac.

You may also be interested in an article I found called Get Back to your Mac without paying for it, which duplicates the functionality of MobileMe's "Back to my Mac" service using some free tools. Unlike the MobileMe version, this one also works from a PC.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0 x64; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090214 Minefield/3.2a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Laptop: HP Compaq nx6325 - Turion 64 X2 @ 2GHz, 2GB DDR2, 100GB HD, ATI Radeon X300, 15" LCD, Seven Pro
Handheld: Palm Treo 650 - Intel PXA270 @ 312MHz, 10MB RAM, 32MB flash, 2.7" LCD, Palm OS 5.4
User avatar
Don_HH2K
Moderator
Moderator
 
Posts: 5112
Joined: Sun 09 May, 2004 3:59 pm

Re: connecting from home (mac) to office (pc)

Postby Antony » Tue 24 Feb, 2009 9:09 pm

esquirefox007 wrote:i like to know how can i connect or set up my mac so it can from home set up my shared folder i can connect my mac to my pc from a home network but i don't know how to dit from my home to my work please if anyone can help me.
Firstly, you will need to make sure there are certain ports opened for connection (on both ISPs and routers/modems).

As for connecting to your Mac (from another Mac), the easiest way is of course using the built-in Back To My Mac feature in Mac OS X 10.5. (A MobileMe subscription is required.)

I haven't remotely connecting to a PC for ages.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011912 Firefox/3.0.6
User avatar
Antony
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 14510
Joined: Tue 18 Jun, 2002 11:36 pm
Location: Sydney, Australia

thanks

Postby esquirefox007 » Wed 25 Feb, 2009 5:39 pm

wow !! you guys are the best thanks for the info!!

:D
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1
esquirefox007
new member
new member
 
Posts: 3
Joined: Sun 12 Feb, 2006 2:40 pm


Return to Home and Business Networking

Who is online

Registered users: Google [Bot]