You’ll panic a little, and then consider using Disk Utility to repair the disk. You’ll then check the drive only to discover that although the backup folder exists, its contents are all gone. Thinking it must have just been a one-time glitch, you’ll manually run a backup, but that will result in an error as well. Time Machine couldn’t back up to ‘your_drive_name'” - where your_drive_name will be the backup drive you’ve assigned. If you’re using the Apple OS X integrated Time Machine backup software, at some point you’ll likely get an error message stating: “Backup Failed. The shared folder should now be accessible. Choose Connect as Guest access (for some reason entering a username doesn’t work).
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Type in //ServerName/SharedFolder and press Enter.On the Apple computer, press command+k (or from the Go menu in Finder, choose Go to server).Apple Instructionsįollow these instructions to access the shared Ubuntu folder. However, attempting to login using one of the Linux user account names and password will fail. If you click on the bottom two boxes above, sharing will then work properly. Normally it would be possible to setup the folder to be accessible based on user accounts.
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It’s believed that Apple has implemented a version of SMB (file sharing) that does communicate properly with Ubuntu. Once the installation is complete, you can share the folder.Ĭurrently, something odd is happening between Ubuntu 14.1 and Apple 10.10 (Yosemite).
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You need to install the Windows network sharing service in order to share your folders.”Ĭonfirm to install the additional software. When you click on “Share this folder” (for the first time) you’ll get a message stating “Sharing service is not installed. Right click on the folder you’d like to share.Ĭhoose Properties, and then click on the Local Network Share tab. Ubuntu file sharing with Apple computers over a network is fairly easy.