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<blockquote data-quote="Lúthien" data-source="post: 1148816" data-attributes="member: 181163"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>I have spent all day today trying to figure out what I thought was pretty straightforward, but turned out to be not quite so straightforward <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Smirk.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Smirk:" title="Smirk :Smirk:" data-shortname=":Smirk:" /></p><p></p><p>it's this: I work together with my friend on a couple of projects. Sometimes we work at my place, sometimes at her's. We usually bring our own files with us, either on the disk of the laptop or with a usb stick. </p><p>This week, I bought an Airport Extreme to use for backing up my stuff (I have a MBP and an iMac at home). Reading through the manual and several online articles I began to suspect that it might be possible to set things up in such a way that I could access my USB external HD (which is now connected to the Airport Extreme) from my friend's house over the internet. This would really be handy, so I tried to figure out how to do that. </p><p></p><p></p><p>My setup is as follows: I had an existing DSL modem/wireless router. </p><p>I connected the Airport Extreme to that using a Ethernet cable - using one of the Ethernet ports on the existing modem/router and plugging it into the WAN port of the Airport Extreme. </p><p>I then disabled the modem/router's wifi, and set up a new wireless network from the Airport Extreme - also using DHCP.</p><p>This worked fine - and the Time Machine also works as it should, both on the iMac and the MBP.</p><p></p><p>I was also able to hook up my existing external USB HD to the Airport Extreme, making it thus available to both computers. </p><p></p><p>I started off today by reading all I could find about how to go about making my Airport Extreme plus attached HD "visible" to the Internet (password protected). </p><p></p><p>The first thing that I could not find a clear answer on was whether it would make a difference that the Airport Extreme is connected to the Internet via the old modem/router. It's still being routed through the "router" part of that thing and is thus not connected to the internet directly - but all howto's that I could find did not mention this. They all seem to consider the case that the Airport Extreme is connected to the internet using only a modem (DSL or cable). </p><p></p><p>So when the "howto" speaks of "external IP address of the Airport" - it is a bit ambivalent in my setup. It is still a "LAN" ip address - 192.168.1.9. - and really cannot figure out how to proceed here. </p><p></p><p>Maybe I am just overlooking something very obvious. But does anyone have an idea how to do this?</p><p>The logical thing to do would be, I think, to use port forwarding in the old modem/router, which would expose the Airport Extreme to the outside world. But I need to figure out how to set the Airport Extreme in order to make use of that - and also, what ports I would need to forward on the old modem/router.</p><p></p><p>I have a static WAN IP address - I checked that. </p><p></p><p>I'd appreciate any help!!</p><p></p><p>- luthien</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lúthien, post: 1148816, member: 181163"] Hi, I have spent all day today trying to figure out what I thought was pretty straightforward, but turned out to be not quite so straightforward :Smirk: it's this: I work together with my friend on a couple of projects. Sometimes we work at my place, sometimes at her's. We usually bring our own files with us, either on the disk of the laptop or with a usb stick. This week, I bought an Airport Extreme to use for backing up my stuff (I have a MBP and an iMac at home). Reading through the manual and several online articles I began to suspect that it might be possible to set things up in such a way that I could access my USB external HD (which is now connected to the Airport Extreme) from my friend's house over the internet. This would really be handy, so I tried to figure out how to do that. My setup is as follows: I had an existing DSL modem/wireless router. I connected the Airport Extreme to that using a Ethernet cable - using one of the Ethernet ports on the existing modem/router and plugging it into the WAN port of the Airport Extreme. I then disabled the modem/router's wifi, and set up a new wireless network from the Airport Extreme - also using DHCP. This worked fine - and the Time Machine also works as it should, both on the iMac and the MBP. I was also able to hook up my existing external USB HD to the Airport Extreme, making it thus available to both computers. I started off today by reading all I could find about how to go about making my Airport Extreme plus attached HD "visible" to the Internet (password protected). The first thing that I could not find a clear answer on was whether it would make a difference that the Airport Extreme is connected to the Internet via the old modem/router. It's still being routed through the "router" part of that thing and is thus not connected to the internet directly - but all howto's that I could find did not mention this. They all seem to consider the case that the Airport Extreme is connected to the internet using only a modem (DSL or cable). So when the "howto" speaks of "external IP address of the Airport" - it is a bit ambivalent in my setup. It is still a "LAN" ip address - 192.168.1.9. - and really cannot figure out how to proceed here. Maybe I am just overlooking something very obvious. But does anyone have an idea how to do this? The logical thing to do would be, I think, to use port forwarding in the old modem/router, which would expose the Airport Extreme to the outside world. But I need to figure out how to set the Airport Extreme in order to make use of that - and also, what ports I would need to forward on the old modem/router. I have a static WAN IP address - I checked that. I'd appreciate any help!! - luthien [/QUOTE]
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