Hi, Michael: Michael Marshall writes: > what linux do you use?
I've been a Fedora user since the days it was just called Red Hat. At various times I have also had Debian machines. I currently also have Arch on an old laptop, and have had a go at installing Arch in a VMware vm. > if you use ubuntu how do you cope with the Unity desktop view? > i am having a play with ubuntu mate at the moment. Well, this is one key reason why I don't do Ubuntu, though I believe I briefly had an Ubuntu install about a decade ago. I suppose knowing which choices to make on Linux is the top challenge for a blind user. Unlike Microsoft and Apple were there's generally just one desktop (and one terminal), Linux gives one choices at almost every turn. There are choices in desktops, but only GNOME, and some of its variants are accessible. There are also choices in how to manage the sound environment which have accessibility consequences. Heck, there are choices in how to manage the TCP/IP stack. Fortunately, the latter set are generally accessible, whichever you choose, but knowing which options bear which consequences is important to the level of success and satisfaction you're likely to experience with Linux. Myself, personally, I'm fortunate to have the kind of mindset that prefers the command line to the graphical desktop environment. That's just how I'm constituted. On Linux that's an advantage because the Linux console, mediated by the screen terminal app is a perfect environment for the Speakup screen reader. And, if you're a braille person, which I am not, you won't find a better braille environment anywhere on any OS than brltty. Now, whether this kind of frame of reference would meet your needs is another matter entirely. There are indeed blind Linux users who don't bother with the console and simply use Orca on the GNOME desktop (or one of its variants). hth Janina > > On 19 Jan 2016, at 8:23 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Your Mac uses netbios to share its folders. This is why it's relatively > > easier to share your host's file system in a Windows VMware guest > > machine--netbios is natively a Microsoft way of doing such things. > > > > You have two choices for access Mac hosted file systems under Linux > > virtual machines: > > > > 1.) Install and configure Samba in order to get netbios services > > under Linux. This is a common application, and apt-get on your Ubuntu > > machine will know about Samba. > > > > 2.) Find, install and configure a NFS server on your Mac. NFS is the > > preferred way to mount file systems hosted across a network under Linux, > > and is easily configured on the Linux side of things. However, it's not > > common on Mac to share using NFS. > > > > > > PS: It's fairly easy to go the other way around with NFS. In other > > words, it's fairly easy to read NFS exported file systems from a Linux > > virtual host machine on the Mac host. In my situation I have my Airbook > > configured to access files from my home office Linux servers using NFS. > > > > The point here is that you're using network technology to mount remote > > file systems--even though both machines are in the same physical box. > > The communication between your Mac and your VMware virtual machines is > > using TCP/IP. > > > > hth > > > > Janina > > > > Michael Marshall writes: > >> hey all, > >> yesterday i at last got open VM tools installed on ubuntu mate v 15 so i > >> could hopefully share and mirror folders from the mac on my virtual > >> machine. > >> even after installing open VM tools i could not find my shared folders, > >> nor could i see anything in any of the folders i wanted to mirror between > >> the two machines. > >> is there something that i'm doing wrong? the installation of open VM tools > >> went exactly according to plan but that was as far as i got. > >> I find this incredibly irritating and i'm out of ideas. > >> i even tried this on the mane ubuntu distro without any luck. > >> > >> thanks for any help > >> > >> Michael > >> > >> -- > >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac > >> Visionaries list. > >> > >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or > >> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the > >> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > >> > >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > >> Quinn - 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