[eScrib]

Hello all -

I have a few technical questions regarding my recent DSL acquisition and Aiport.

1) Can you turn on WEP and have the password be stored in the keycahin so that every time the computer is turned on or rebooted, I don't have to select the airport network and enter in a password? I just want to be logged on the the net and not worry.

2) I want to be able to access my computer from a remote location; ftp/ssh.

How can you figure out the router IP? Since I have a dynamic IP, it changes. How can I always be updated what the IP is?

Once the IP is known, how can I ftp/ssh into my desktop from a remote location through the airport? I have multiple computers on my network, so how can I set that all incoming traffic be pointed to my desktop?


Thanks for all the help!

[TheBum]

Originally posted by eScrib:
1) Can you turn on WEP and have the password be stored in the keycahin so that every time the computer is turned on or rebooted, I don't have to select the airport network and enter in a password? I just want to be logged on the the net and not worry.

Absolutely. It'd be a real pain otherwise. Just make sure that the Airport Network preferences are set up to automatically log into the last network used.

2) I want to be able to access my computer from a remote location; ftp/ssh.

How can you figure out the router IP? Since I have a dynamic IP, it changes. How can I always be updated what the IP is?

Ultimately, you need to somehow generate an HTML file with the current IP address and have it automatically upload to the web space provided by your ISP. There may be some apps that'll do the trick. Do a search on Version Tracker.

Once the IP is known, how can I ftp/ssh into my desktop from a remote location through the airport? I have multiple computers on my network, so how can I set that all incoming traffic be pointed to my desktop?

Just set up Port Forwarding on the base station to forward TCP ports for the services you want to access to your desktop's IP address. For FTP: ports 20 and 21; for SSH: port 22 (I think).

[aaanorton]

Originally posted by eScrib:
2) I want to be able to access my computer from a remote location; ftp/ssh.

How can you figure out the router IP? Since I have a dynamic IP, it changes. How can I always be updated what the IP is?

The way to do this is through a free DNS forwarding service, like DynDNS. You register a free DNS there and their servers will redirect all traffic to whatever IP you specify. They also have links to d/l clients to run on your comp that will auto-update the DNS you have registered when your dynamic IP changes.

[tritonus]

Thanks guys. If it's not an easy thing to do, I'm not gonna do it.

Please see my other related thread, too:

Topic: Monitor/meter AirPort Extreme base station
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=173458

[tritonus]

Here's are two articles from Apple KB that might help you:

"AirPort Extreme: Microsoft Windows Clients Cannot Connect to Encrypted Network (WEP)"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107620

"AirPort for Mac OS X: Third-Party Wireless Software and Equivalent Network Password"
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106864