On 22 Sep 2006, at 19:29, James Milne wrote:
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"
Thanks.
Ideally, though, I'd like to do it the other way around. Connect from
the Linux to the Mac. That way I can build directly the stuff, on the
Mac. I've done it before via Samba... but this time it refused to
work, no idea why.
Otherwise I need to copy the files from the Mca to the Linux, compile
on Linux and copy back. This is 3x the number of steps...
Also, how do you even edit /etc/exports? I can't understand vi or
emac. Kwrite says it can't read the file. I can just about handle
pico, haha. But it's not installed.
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