I know this is possible in WinXP because if the Parallels 'extras' virtual disk, but is it possible to share files from my mac to Ubuntu installation? Maybe there is a way to mount a network drive? Anyone have a good trick for doing this?
I share files between Ubuntu and Mac OSx via SSH. Setup ubuntu network so that it can ping the mac os (same ip range, subnet mask, gateway) then I connect in mac os via Cyberduck - SFTP option. Hope this helps
Use samba of NFS Why don't you just set up a samba share on your Mac OS X system and then mount it in your ubuntu installation ? Or you could use an NFS export. That's the way I share folders, since NFS is way faster than samba.
any good tips on how to make 10.4 work as an NFS server? I folllowed the procedures on http://mactechnotes.blogspot.com/2005/09/mac-os-x-as-nfs-server.html and had to kill "nfsd-server" and "mount_nfs" to restart. If I just do to restart a change it doesn't show up the new mounts. Even new mounts do show up, there are errors on both the OS X and Ubuntu sides: On the OS X side: on the Ubuntu side:
Finally NFS server on OS X and NFS client on Ubuntu work after I did a few things: 1. changed both UIDs and GIDs of my acounts on both OS X and Ubuntu so they all match. A good reference is http://inthezone.wordpress.com/2006/06/18/parallels-with-shared-home-directory-to-debian-linux/ 2. added a couple of ipfw rules so ipfw doesn't block packets from and to the Ubuntu VM any more: Now I still have a puzzle to solve- Internet sharing is not working with the host-only networking. Even though I did enable "share your connection from Built-in Ethernet" to en2 Wheneven I try to reach a website or other machines on the same LAN, there is no packets going out through the built-in ethernet. The ipfw tules I added should allow the packets to go through, but OS X is not forwarding them or Parallels is not doing the NAT thing?
Finally problem solved. I had to get the gateway on ubuntu right. I had no idea what it is, but an ifconfig on my macbook shows it's 10.37.129.2 and I just need to put it in system menu-> Administration -> networking -> Ethernet connection's property -> gateway address and now everything works great!
