How can I see work files from home?

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I want to be able to see my work volumes from home. I have complete control over all machines at both locations, but I"m not sure what I need to do.

I don't want Remote Desktop, right? I get the impression that's more for setting up and administrating a classroom of computers or similar.

I just want to tap into my work volumes in whatever is the easiest way. I don't need anything fancy, just a quick and dirty listing of files that I can pull over to work on at home.

We do NOT have a true server. All our machines will be running Tiger. We have a dedicated "file server" G4 that we store all our files on and back up.

Any thoughts? Thanks.
 
I haven't done this since the days of OS9 (when I actually had an
office and a job), but it doesn't seem too different these days. On
your office machine, authorize internet personal file sharing. Note
the machine's IP address.

Link to the office machine via its IP address (You're screwed if it
is assigned on the fly by DHCP or whatever) and log in as its owner,
which you are.

If the office machine doesn't have a static IP address, you might
look into Timbuktu. One of its cuter features is that Netopia keeps
a database of it customers and their current IP addresses (Updates
automagically when the IP address changes). You'd need a twin-
pack at $170 list.
 
"Easiest" is a dedicated VPN appliance and then you would connect to the VPN then to the computer by IP on the remote network, even if it's an internal LAN IP.

OSX Server can act as a VPN server which your clients can connect to.
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/networkingvpn.html

They probably use some open source VPN server which you could probably set up on a client version of OS X but I'm not sure what they use.
 
OK, I can now connect within the office network via FTP. We're trying to reset the router info to allow external FTP access.

However, how can I connect to a separate volume from the boot disk via FTP? In other words, our file server has multiple hard drives attached internally. The files I want access to are not on the boot drive. How can I get to them via FTP?

Thanks.
 
If you have a volume called "MacHD2" the drive will be mounted at /Volumes/MacHD2
which you should be able to navigate to with FTP.
 
Please don't use FTP - that was appropriate in the 20th century. SSH and SFTP offer the same convenience, with the difference that it's secure against password sniffing and man-in-the-middle attacks.
 
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