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CHAPTER 21 WORKING WITH REMOTE SERVERS AND NETWORKS
Figure 21-6. Setting up .Mac in System Preferences
Much like your home account, your .Mac account contains a public folder. If you want to
put something online for a friend or co-worker, you just copy it to your public folder. If you have
a friend who puts something in their public folder for you, you can mount their public folder in
the Finder as well.
To access your iDisk, click its icon in the Devices section of any Finder window. The Finder’s
menu bar also contains an iDisk submenu under the Go menu. You can use that to connect to
your iDisk, another user’s iDisk, or another user’s public folder. You can also jump to your iDisk
by pressing Shift+Cmd+I.
If your friends don’t have a Mac, let alone .Mac, that’s OK. With a few clicks, you can set
up a file exchange site so people can download and upload files to your public disk from their
web browser, as shown in Figure 21-7. If you’d rather not have your public disk be entirely public,
you can password protect it.
Back to My Mac
In Leopard, Apple introduced a new feature called Back to My Mac. When you turn Back to My
Mac on, the .Mac server keeps track of where on the Internet your computer is. Should you find
yourself at work or school having left your big presentation sitting on your desktop, no worries.
With Back to My Mac, you can log into your machine remotely and access the missing files.
To use Back to My Mac, select the .Mac pane in System Preferences, and then choose the
Back to My Mac tab. Click the Start button to make your computer accessible from the Internet.
Then, click the Open Sharing Preferences button to move to the Sharing pane. From here, enable
screen sharing, file sharing, and other services you’d like to be able to access remotely.