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Re: Appleshare access over the internet

At 10:48 AM +1200 8/1/02, James Tolchard wrote:
Well, if all you want is AFP (Appleshare) access to your fileserver, here's what
I'd do (and have done):

1. Enable the file server and secure it (ie, usernames and passwords)
2. Open port 548/tcp on your firewall, and create a NAT entry in your router (if
applicable)
3. For added security, you may wish to do something like restrict the source IP
for incoming AFP connections
4. Clients then connect to your fileserver (using Chooser or Network Browser) by
specifying the IP address of your server (or router, depending on your setup).

These steps are all correct- but in regards to AFP over the net- this is a bad thing in general. Although the account password is never sent over the wire (usually authentication happens with a DHX operation) the data itself is not encrypted.

You can, between Mac OS X hosts, do:

ssh -f -L 3000:server.domain.com:548

...then in connect-to choose:

localhost:3000

All connections the localhost receives will be forwarded over an ssh tunnel to server.domain.com on port 548 (afp).

I believe someone produced a AppleScript Studio front end to this process. It should be in the list archives.

Note Jaguar / Jag server supports this transparently, and that sshd must be running on the server for this to work.

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