I have a question that I would really appreciate some help on, if someone out there can point me in the right direction.
I currently use a laptop in my office here to work and bring it home on weekends (some days I work from home where I have dedicated cable hi-speed access).
I have ordered a Dual 2.0 G5 desktop for my office and will leave my laptop at home most of the time.
I would like to be able to keep all my client files in a folder on the desktop computer here at my office as the main read/write drive for work. I would like to be able to log in to my desktop over the internet on days when I can't get into the office, to be able to work from wherever I am, and specifically to always be able to save my work directly to the 'master drive' desktop system here at the office.
I will of course be running OSX.3 (Panther).
At home I have figured out how to configure file sharing over a wireless local network (with my girlfriends Windows XP machine) by enabling permissions on the root folder and managing network identities etc.
Am I correct in thinking it will just be a matter of specifying the fixed internet IP address of the desktop in my laptop's 'Connect To Server' menu. When my laptop looks for this IP over the internet it will be prompted for a password from my office desktop and I'll have access to the folders for which I've enabled permissions.
Has anybody here done this? Is it easy to do? Is there anything I should look out for or something that I'm missing?
Many thanks for any advice you can give,
Scott
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