#INSTALL SAMBA FOR OSX MAC OS X#

Test it a few times to make sure you can create files from FreeBSD and edit them from OS X and vice versa. Since I like to access my shared folder as a normal user, I logged into my normal user on FreeBSD and made the following symlink for convenience:

Files in your shared folder show up as owned by 'staff' in FreeBSD, and editing them will be equivalent to editing them as your normal user on OS X. If your text file is there, it worked! Permissions should be alright since we used the option -mapall=501:20 in /etc/exports earlier. Then ls from FreeBSD to see if it's there: To see if it worked, put a file (I just used a.

# mount 10.0.2.2:/Users/lion/Dropbox/BSDfiles /mnt/share

#INSTALL SAMBA FOR OSX MAC OS X#

Remember to edit the path name for the location of your own shared folder. Darwin and Mac OS X An installation of Samba is bundled with the Darwin distribution, which is included in Mac OS X. I'm not sure why it says restart in the Handbook, so if that doesn't work just try # service nfsclient start.ĭecide which folder you'll use as a mount point ( /mnt/share in this case), and run the following command to mount your shared folder. Then, from your FreeBSD guest, start the nfs_client service with this command : The file did not already exist on my machine, so I just created it: On OS X, edit the file /etc/exports and nfsd will start automatically. Also (if I understand this correctly), using NAT instead of Bridged Network will allow me to change Wi-Fi networks without any consequences to the shared folders because all connections remain within the Mac. The reason for this is that the IP for the VirtualBox host is always 10.0.2.2 and the guest is always 10.0.2.15 when they access each other, making them easier for me to remember rather than running ifconfig whenever something changes. This is the folder we want to share.įor networking, I used the NAT option for my FreeBSD guest in VirtualBox settings. The path was then /Users/lion/Dropbox/BSDfiles. Here's how you can do the same.įirst, I created a folder called 'BSDfiles' and saved it in my DropBox folder. įolder sharing is currently not supported by the VirtualBox-OSE guest additions, so, with the help of some users here on the forums, I used NFS to get around that limitation. They're cited throughout the text with red numbers in brackets like this. FreeBSD username: lionI've provided my sources at the end of this document.

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