Apple Airport Extreme, VPN and Dynamic DNS

[space-time]

I looked in the PDF manual for my Apple Airport router, and it seems it does not support VPN or Dynam ic DNS.

When I set it up first time, about a year or so ago, I think there was a place when you could enter a Dynamic DNS setting, but I cannot find that option now, and there were some softwar eupdates since then, so maybe it has been removed (or it was never there in the first place).

What I would like to do is to be able to access my home network from outside. I think my old buffallo router ahd these options (VPN, DynDNS). But I am confused why the Apple router does not provide these advanced options.

I know they have the MobileMe thing. but I don't have a Mobileme account.

[Seacrest]

Just use this for DynDNS:
http://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/#mac

[mattkime]

its the difference between "plug it in and it works" and a nerd tool. you're looking for a nerd tool.

[testcase]

Thanks for that link Seacrest!

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space-time wrote:
I looked in the PDF manual for my Apple Airport router, and it seems it does not support VPN

It supports VPN pass-through.

Give your computer a static LAN IP. Under the Internet tab in Airport Utility, select NAT. Check "Enable default host" and set the IP address the static IP of your computer.

Specific information for Cisco VPN:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2585

[Silencio]

I assume you're wanting to access your home computer (or entire network?) from outside your LAN, right?

There are a couple of programs out there like ShareTool that perform much the same function as Back To My Mac, but without having to pay for MobileMe every year.

http://www.yazsoft.com/products/sharetool/

Back To My Mac generally works great for me. I did used to have a Netopia router at home that was a PPTP/IPSec server, but it was slow and unreliable.

[space-time]

well, I just want to access a shared USB drive. Is that possible?