Use “Back To My Mac” without paying for .Mac, buying worthless online products

A lot of people love the “Back To My Mac” feature shipped with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Sadly, few people get to use this feature, as it is only available for .Mac subscribers. However, Lifehacker has put together an article describing, step by step, how to enable Faux Back To My Mac. Essentially, you’ll have to enable Screen Sharing and FTP file sharing in System Preferences, and then access these two features from other computers using a Static IP you assigned to your computer, and a domain name assigned to that IP (if you don’t like to remember numbers). The “hack” takes advantage of OS X’s built in FTP/ADP, and the Screen Sharing app found in /System/Library/CoreServices. Although the method they describe works fine, a VPN would also do the trick, such as Hamachi. Some people may prefer LogMeIn to the hack, and some people, like me, will save the time and hassle and take my computer with me.

Article [Lifehacker]