Friday, March 22, 2013

HOW TO SHARE EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE FROM MAC OS X TO LINUX UBUNTU

IN MAC
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To Enable file sharing:
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1..From the Apple drop-down list, select System Preferences....
2..Click the Sharing icon.
3..In Mac OS X select 10.4 select the Services tab.
4..Check on "File Sharing" and "Remote Log in"
5..When finished, close the Sharing window.

To check Username (administrator) of External Drive
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1..Right Click on External Exp drive
2..Click on Get info
3..Click Under the Sharing and Permission
(Note supper username for this External hard drive that is usually your admin and password)


IN UBUNTU
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1..$sudo apt-get install sshfs
2..Go to Places and click "Connect to Server"
3..From the "Type" select ssh
4..in the Server put IP of your remote server
5..in the user detail put username and password of the remote server
6..Click connect
7..Done

NOW YOU CAN BROWS/COPY/PAST THE WHOLE REMOTE COMPUTER AND ITS DRIVES AS YOU CAN IN UBUNTU.

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