accessing an afp address on Haiku

Forum thread started by el.tigre.20 on Fri, 2012-07-13 17:29

Hello Everybody!

Currently, I am running Haiku in Vmware Fusion 4, and it works beautifully... the only problem is that I don't have a way to transfer files from the host machine the the guest machine. The host is Mac OS X Lion (10.7) and the Guest is Haiku (obviously).

Firstly, is there a decent, free way to transfer files back and forth between host and guest? (keep in mind that currently, vmware does not have any support for Haiku - file sharing is not an option for haiku).

Secondly, because there is no filesharing within Vmware Fusion 4, how can I accomplish file transferring between Haiku and Mac OS X? I tried Macintosh File Server, but I can't figure out the software, and it's a really old piece of software - suppose to run on Mac OS X 10.5. I've tinkered with mediatomb, and I get nothing. And none of the web browsers in haiku support afp:// protocols, so I can't connect that way...

So I'm really at a loss. FTP is an option, but I have no idea how to set one up for free...

Thanks, and I hope someone can help! cheers!!!

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Comments

Re: accessing an afp address on Haiku

by dcatt - 2012-07-14 02:58

Though I haven't file shared from BeOS (or even Haiku for that matter) in a long time; there are various options out there with a lot of them in questionable working condition (by the looks of it).

You could try this: http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/internet-network/servers/sim...

OR

If you're not afraid of the commandline you could use SSH (via Terminal) and use SCP (secure copy) to transfer files back-n-forth. It's not that hard to learn to do and after a few tries you'll get the hang of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy

Re: accessing an afp address on Haiku

by phoudoin - 2012-07-14 07:44

You can enabled the built-in Haiku ftp server:

  1. On Haiku :
    1. Locate the "services" file under /boot/common/settings/network
    2. Remove the # commenting the "service ftp" block
  2. On Mac, fire your prefered ftp client and connect to the Haiku guest IP address

Re: accessing an afp address on Haiku

by hey68you - 2012-07-15 06:12

I was able to do file transfer from Haiku to MacOSX Lion with Fugu: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fugussh/files/

Uses scp so please read this to set up Haiku to work:

https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/daily-tasks/netservices

Regards,
hey68you