On 22 Sep 2006, at 19:24, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
Anyone got some advice on transfering files between Mac and Linux??
I'm running Mandrake at the moment on a PC laptop.
I don't really know Linux very well. Mostly what I know is through
using MacOSX actually.
Anhow... i'm having trouble getting file sharing to work. The FTP
clients totally suck. I can't figure out how to enable my PC laptop
to act as an FTP server, I can't seem to mount my Mac as an FTP
server on their file system, Samba4K is refusing to connect to the
Mac despite that it works from the PC...
The GUI is slow and unresponsible and clumsy too.
Basically, it sucks.
Any ideas anyone?
I'm thinking I'm needing to resort to uploading my source code to
my website, and downloading it from Linux. So much for the ultra-
modern network compliant OS... Seems you need to know which obscure
and ridiculously technical software to compile and install on
Mandrake before you'll be able to get basic functionality working.
You'd be best to setup an NFS export on your linux machine, and then
mount that NFS export on your Mac.
To create an NFS export on your Linux machine, edit the file /etc/
exports. Consult the 'man exports' on your Linux machine for
examples of how to edit this file.
Once you have an export setup on your linux machine, you can mount it
on your Mac using a URL such as "nfs://address_of_linux_box/path/on/
linux/box"
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Kind regards,
James Milne
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