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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Manhattan Kansas
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I am in my first semester at Kansas State University and was wondering if anyone could help me out. I have what I would consider a decent amount of knowledge about Mac OS but I have never got into the server side. I have an older G4, 400MHZ (I also have my new 12 inch powerbook  ) and I am interested in trying to run a simple file server. I want to be able to store music, movies, etc so others in my dorm can access it. If anyone could give me some insight on what I need. If this is even possible. Just some basic knowledge about how I can start this. I would really appreciate it. Thanks for your help.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Teaneck, NJ
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I don't have all the answers but step one is to get both of your computers on the network. My dorm rooms only gave me one ethernet jack per person, is this the case for you? If so you can buy a cheap 4 port router so you can connect both computers. Once that is done turn on ftp access in the sharing pref pane and users should be able to remotely mount the hard drive. I'm sure there are better (and more secure) ways of doing this so check back here.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Follow the steps SSHaron gave with the network hardware.
FTP would be the way to go, since some people may have Windoz machines around. Before you go and turn on FTP in Sharing preferences create a new user first (System Preferences > Accounts > "+"). Give the new user a name (guest) and password, and under the "Limitations" tab click on "Simple Finder". This will block all access to other folders on your root (/) volume.
Now transfer your movies, songs, etc. into the "Public" folder under the account that you created in the previous step (guest). Anyone logging in with that user/pass combination will have access to the account folder of "guest", including the "Public" folder.
To connect to the FTP server from your laptop go to the "Go > Connect to server" menu and type in ftp://<myserversnameorIP>, and a login dialog box will pop-up.
Let us know if you have any problems.
(Last edited by zwiebel_; Oct 4, 2004 at 06:03 PM.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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yeah my dorm dorm room only has one ethernet jack, however we already have a wireless router. Thanks for your help.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Long Beach, CA
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Originally posted by Mcroftksu:
yeah my dorm dorm room only has one ethernet jack, however we already have a wireless router. Thanks for your help.
Are you talking about other people that are connected to the wireless router, or people throughout the entire building? That would be two different configurations of your router.
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I want to allow connections from outside the router.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally posted by Mcroftksu:
I want to allow connections from outside the router.
You will need to configure port forwarding on the router to forward incoming traffic to the appropriate machine. You will need to consult the manual for your router to do this.
As far as port numbers, the file /etc/services lists everything you are likely to need.
In addition, if the IP address that your router receives is not static, you may also want to set up an account at dyndns.org and get an appropriate client running on your Mac.
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