Question: My daughter has a new Apple laptop. Her old laptop is an older Dell Inspiron. It runs Windows XP. The Dell has pictures and videos of her son (my grandson), we want to transfer to an external hard drive. My question is, can the data that is transferred to the external hard drive from Windows XP be transferred to her new Apple laptop which runs Mac OS/X?

Answer: 
Well the answer turned out to be rather simple for me. I live in an apartment complex, and at this time I share a public IP with all who live in the complex. I have to request my own public IP to get this working. However I hope others will benefit from the other comments and answers given!

EDIT: I suppose a solution for this is posted [here](https://superuser.com/questions/85285/ssh-to-computer-with-shared-public-ip-and-no-admin-rights-over-the-router?rq=1)
Verify if your ISP is blocking the port 22 (it's easy to search).

Also, be sure that your port forwarding is correct:

* IP source must be empty
* Source port is 22
* IP Destination must point to your computer local ip (which is given by your router and looks like 192.168.X.X [warning: 192.168.X.1 is your router])
* Destination port is 22

If your ISP does block port 22, a little trick that could work is setting the source port to 443 (SSL) [keep the destination one to 22], which is more often open that SSH. Be sure if you try to connect to your server from outside that you specified the port 443.