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 > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net Email: jan...@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
