Set up your Mac for remote file access

#1 Macworld

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 08:31 AM

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#2 SFrawley

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 09:30 AM

Been doing this for years and even with sharing turned on, you can email yourself a file also if needed when away from your machine via VNC.

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 09:56 AM

Out of curiosity, how safe is it to leave Remote Login enabled on a Mac? Does doing so make your Mac more vulnerable to attack? Or does it depend on the strength of your user account password?

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 10:31 AM

There's another very easy way to do this if you have Dropbox installed at home and on your laptop: In screen sharing session, open both your Dropbox folder and the folder you want to move files from; drag the desired file to Dropbox, open Dropbox on the remote machine and the file will be there. Think of it as transferring a file by proxy.

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 10:54 AM

mk44, on 28 June 2012 - 09:56 AM, said:

Out of curiosity, how safe is it to leave Remote Login enabled on a Mac? Does doing so make your Mac more vulnerable to attack? Or does it depend on the strength of your user account password?

SSH is considered extremely safe and the data is encrypted. System administrators use SSH to connect to web and other publicly accessible servers.

To answer your question does it depend on the strength of your user account password? Absolutely - there's no getting around that.

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 01:42 PM

Thanks! I've been using Carbon Copy Cloner to backup my laptop via Remote Login to an external HD connected to a MacMini. I was just curious how safe it was to keep Remote Login enabled full-time on the MacMini. Sounds like it is relatively safe--as safe as my password, that is.

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 02:34 PM

There is no wireless --> port settings in airport utility. The only related thing is see is wireless clients, with the name of the computer and some info regarding hardware and ip addresses.

Can you be more specific as to what you mean by "forwarding your SSH service"?

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Posted 28 June 2012 - 06:54 PM

Apple-only solutions are not reliable, especially when when you access the Internet through routers that are not compliant with Apple protocols. Also, you never know when Apple will discontinue or change something (like kill MobileMe or require Lion OS) Put Logmein and Dropbox on your computers and you'll be good to go at all times. Use Logmein to drop needed items into Dropbox.

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Posted 29 June 2012 - 04:42 AM

Does this work if my iMac is asleep on my home network?
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Posted 01 July 2012 - 05:16 AM

dssmith, on 29 June 2012 - 04:42 AM, said:

Does this work if my iMac is asleep on my home network?

You can set the Mac to automatically wake up when you try to connect to it. This can be done in the System Preferences > "Energy Saver", by checking the "Wake for Wi-Fi network access" check box. That's under Lion: the option might be slightly differently on other versions of OS X, or if there is a wired network connection.

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Posted 24 October 2012 - 01:23 PM

Is this the same steps I would take to setup SFTP to let users from across the country access a particular folder on my Mac download and upload files?

Essentially what I'm looking for is letting a group of people access a folder containing photos. They want to pull some of my photos from my machine to theirs. I just don't want to try to email large photo files. I'd rather have them connect to my SFTP server and put in a username and access the directory.

Do I need to create a user account for each of these people in users and groups from system preferences?

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 04:25 AM

Hi , First thanks for the video it help me a lot , i've trying to this for a while .

i couldnt locate any of my hard drives in cyberduck , i can see everything desktop, downloads etc , but my 4 internal hard drives i dont know where to find then , can you help me out please?

Thanks a lot.

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