It's been a while since I did this but OSX has nfsd pre-installed and
you only need to set it up. From my old notes I think I had to set up my
exports file in /etc/exports (see man exports). I wanted to backup some
mysql files from a Centos box to my mac so I had a drive on the Mac
called Backup and just added
/Volumes/Backup -maproot=cblouch
cblouch was my username on both boxes. I then did an nfsd enable to
start things up. From the linux side I did something like:
mount network_address_of_my_mac:/Volumes/Backup /root/backmount
where backmount was an existing folder in /root. To get rid of the mount
I do umount backmount. After mounting I could then copy files at will
from the Centos box to backmount and they would appear on the Backup
drive on the Mac and vice versa.
CB
On 1/18/16 4:23 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 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
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