RE: remote connection error with Mac Mini

First off, the non-Apple wireless router is totally fine.. Chances are, the IP address the wireless rouer is providing to the mini is not a public IP address. If the new IP address is 10.x.x.x or 172.16.x.x or 192.168.x.x then you won’t be able to reach it from your admin G5 unless the wireless router has a DMZ feature or can otherwise be tweaked to pass certain ports along to the mini. Can you tell us more about the network on which the mini now resides?

 

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Peter M. Bukowinski

- Network Engineer, ENS

-- Howard Hughes Medical Institute

--- Janelia Farm Research Campus

 

 

Using ARD 2.2, we are trying to connect a remote Mac Mini (dual core) through a wireless router to an adminstrator G5 which is connected to the internet via T1. We’ve had the remote Mac Mini communicating with this admin. G5 locally, but trying it at a remote location with a different I.P. address doesn’t work, they don’t connect for some reason. The wireless router we are trying to use is not an Airport base station. Could that be the problem? We’re newbies at using Apple Remote Desktop...any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim