sandy978

I really appreciate all the posts - I am very sorry for seeming so ignorant, my boss asked me to set this up at work and I am not really very advanced in IT, my boss knows this but this is something he wants done by the end of the week. I know what a VPN is, but could someone help me with instructions on how to set up a VPN? And how do I obtain a WAN ip address when the router will only show the private ip? I am guessing my WAN ip is what shows when I go to a site like: whatismyip.com? If that is correct, everytime I try to acess throug this IP I am taken to the MAC G5 Server computer's files instead of the PC. Also, I am not wanting access to all PC files, just one shared folder that houses our Quickbooks files. Thank you so much for any help you can give me!

Thank you very much for your fast reply! I did put the PC into remote desktop, and still nothing. However, I am mostly wanting to use file sharing to access files more than remote desktop. We are housing Quickbooks files on the PC, and want them to be accessible from another location, allowing the other individual to open the files, change them and save them as the same file. I am not sure remote dektop would serve this purpose fully. I have another PC in the office on the network able to access the main PC's files using the UNC path without the port, but not the remote PC at another location. Do you know what I need to do in order to enable this way of accessing files? I have enabled and opened all necessary ports. If remote desktop works the same way as file sharing, do you know what may be wrong? Thanks!

My work has mixed systems on our network (MAC's, PC's) . The router is assigning all computers a private ip address 192.168.xxx.xxx, etc. I understand that I cannot connect to a private IP unless I configure port forwarding, which I have already done. I forwarded ports 445 and 3389 For file sharing and remote desktop. so my path is \\192.168.xxx.xxx:3389 This however does not work. When I go to whatismyip.com on the PC, I am shown the ip address for our MAC server. So I cannot obtain a public IP. I am not sure what I am doing wrong at this point, any help would be reatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!