![]() ![]() It is a bit annoying that to switch between application you have to use a lot minimize-maximize icon, or run them in smaller windows then switch manually. Unfortunately many applications are not natively support this feature yet. You can easily switch between working application, especially if you use a track pad or magic mouse. When you click it, the application will automatically open in a new desktop space. One of new features in OSX Lion that I found very helpful is the icon at top right corner of every window. Posted in Ideas, Mac OSX Lion, Ubuntu Tagged Macfusion, OpenSSH, OSX Lion, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu Natty Narwhal Set Virtualbox machine to separate desktop space in OSX Lion Share my DVD drive with my Mac Mini over LAN Once completed, open Finder, click your Mac machine under Devices at Sidebar. Open Finder – Preferences, click Sidebar tab, click the check box of your machine under Devices. To access it from any application, enable the home folder at your favorites in the Finder preference setting. Your mounted drive will be on your desktop. You will be ask to enter the password, key in the password and click the check box Save Password in Keychain. To mount your new drive, just click mount. Go to the Macfusion tab, leave the Mount Point as default and fill the Volume Name as you wish to be displayed in the mounted device at your Mac, I fill it “Remote Disc”. Ignore the SSH Advance tab if you use the default settings at your server. I name it DVD, fill the IP as your SSH server IP, User Name and Password as what you have defined at your server, and fill the Path as your share folder that you setup in Ubuntu server. Open MacFusion click the “+” sign at the left bottom to add new device. Then follow the rest of installation instruction to complete the setup. Make sure you install Compatibility Layer when installing OSX Fuse. ![]() To access the server from Mac, I use OSX Fuse and Macfusion, download both software. dev/dvd /media/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 You need to tell ubuntu to auto mounting the DVD drive with generic mounted volume so we can set it as shared volume.Īdd the following line at the end of the file. ![]() You can change the setting if you like, for example if you would restrict access based on IP for your ssh server. ![]() The command will use standard setting for ssh such as use standard port 22 for ssh, and use protocol 2. This should also work in newer Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot or other version of Ubuntu. We will use a very useful tool Secured Shell (SSH) using openssh in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. I think comparable with SMB file sharing. It works fast, faster than using netatalk. There is another solution we can use is using Open-SSH. If you use diskless Macs like Macbook Air or Mac Mini, of course you would need to use the DVD drive in other machine or buy external DVD drive. I have shared to you how to Setup Shared DVD in Ubuntu for Mac OSX Lion using AFP and netatalk. I have Mac and Windows boxes in the network and I have common files that are used by many users like pictures, musics, etc. In my home office I use Ubuntu 11.04 as my file server. Sharing folder is one of important features that you must have if you work with multiple computers in a network. ![]()
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