Comments on: ISP-In-A-Box: Remotely Managing Your Mac Using AFP and SSH Tunnels

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:21:34 +0000

Hey, I love all the tutorials here and have found them all very helpful. Just wanted to add that there’s a way to disable Guest Access through the AFP sharing method. I found it on this site: http://www.princeton.edu/~psg/unix/osx/osxsecurity.html

The tip is to just run this command from terminal:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer guestAccess -bool false

It will turn off guest access permanently. Don’t forget to reset the AFP service to have it activated.

By: Steve Drake

Steve Drake — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:04:53 +0000

This looks wrong to me – I think your script makes a secure connection to the local computer, and then forwards the afp connection in the usual manner across the internet.
I tried it this way:

ssh -L 10548:localhost:548 -f -N @

This worked for me and I think it is correct.
"localhost" here refers to the localhost on the remote side of the ssh connection – you could use a different name to connect to another computer on the remote machine’s local network.
You don’t need to be an administrator on either machine to do this.

Regards
Steve