Simple file sharing between FC2 and Mac OS X?

Douglas Phillipson dougp at intermind.net
Wed Sep 15 22:11:55 UTC 2004


How about scp to copy files?

Doug P

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 14:03, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> 
>>Hi! I've got a graphic designer (I'm a web developer) coming over on
>>Friday for a long brainstorming session. I have a WiFi (802.11b)
>>network, and I'm using FC2 and she uses Mac OS X. Although Mac OS X is
>>BSD under the hood, and so not dissimilar to Linux, I don't really have
>>much experience with it and she (the graphic designer) is not technical
>>at all. I don't want to waste the first hour fiddling around trying to
>>set things up so that we can easily share files -- if worse comes to the
>>worse we can just use a USB key to share files -- but I was wondering if
>>there is a simpler way of doing things. What needs to be running on her
>>machine for me to use some GNOME-VFS magic to work directly with files
>>on her Mac via Nautilus? Or, alternatively, what do I need so that she
>>can easily have read and write access to some files on my FC2 box?
>>Ideally, I'd like to be able to just browse to a folder on her Mac in
>>Nautilus, and the next best thing would be for her to be able to open a
>>folder on my machine in the Finder on her Mac.
>>
>>Any pointers would be very helpful. Thanks!
> 
> ----
> both machines have samba and nfs - either can be used. Shouldn't be that
> hard to set up. 
> 
> man smb.conf
> man exports
> man mount
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
> 

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