02-09-2007, 05:56 AM
It sounds like he has a computer at home that is designated for "work." If so you have two options:
1) configure your router to allow apple file sharing request to be sent from your router to your "work" computer. This will get you to your files but nothing else. It does open a security risk but alot of people do it.
2) upgrade your router to something that includes a vpn server. I don't have alot of experience in this area for home users. At work I started with a snapgear router (pretty affordable) that could do ipsec tunnels or pptp vpn's. I can say for certain that the pptp + snapgear+osx works just fine.
Now I have a sonicwall (much more expensive) and I'll be buying a piece of software tomorrow to allow me to establish ipsec connections to it. http://www.equinux.com/us/products/vpntr...index.html
If you are pretty savy you can probably do something on your own but if you aren't you might want to call around and have a computer shop come and install it for you.
Dave
1) configure your router to allow apple file sharing request to be sent from your router to your "work" computer. This will get you to your files but nothing else. It does open a security risk but alot of people do it.
2) upgrade your router to something that includes a vpn server. I don't have alot of experience in this area for home users. At work I started with a snapgear router (pretty affordable) that could do ipsec tunnels or pptp vpn's. I can say for certain that the pptp + snapgear+osx works just fine.
Now I have a sonicwall (much more expensive) and I'll be buying a piece of software tomorrow to allow me to establish ipsec connections to it. http://www.equinux.com/us/products/vpntr...index.html
If you are pretty savy you can probably do something on your own but if you aren't you might want to call around and have a computer shop come and install it for you.
Dave