[SORTED]I want to spread the word, but until I get this ...

[ICLlP]

Hi, I have successfully mounted a Mac OS X share in Rune, but am having difficulty with a second.

The good one is a folder on an external HDD connected to my iMac. The IP address is xx.x.x.111 and the directory is Drobo/Music. With my username and password entered it works.

I am now trying to mount the iTunes folder on my sons iMac. The IP address is xx.x.x.118 and I have tried all sorts for the directory e.g. username/Music. But Rune tells me “Unable to find suitable address”.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[ICLlP]

I've been thinking some more about this. From the Rune UI I can happily mount any folder in any users' area on my iMac, which has IP address xx.x.x.111. I just have to use the SMB/CIFS (OS X Share) option as the file share protocol.

I cannot mount any folder on any other Mac in the house even though I do exactly the same thing, ensuring I use the appropriate username and password. I have tried connecting to xx.x.x.118, xx.x.x.127 and xx.x.x.135 with no luck. So, this makes no sense unless there is something different about my iMac.

What could be different and why aren't more Mac OS X users reporting problems?

A while ago (July) a user here "naircl" helped me out by guiding me to mount my music folder as a NFS share. The link to the thread is below. This involved doing stuff I don't understand, in Terminal, to the iMac as well as to Rune. Is it something I've done here that has made my iMac more accessible to Rune than it otherwise would be? I should note that the IP addresses of the iMac and the Pi are now not the same as they were at the time of the actions described in the thread. Hoping for help, thanks in advance.

trying-to-access-music-on-a-mac-s-external-hdd-t241.html

[ICLlP]

Anyone?

[cmh714]

I can mount shares directly from my MacBook Pro's drive but cant get a NTFS formatted USB to mount from the Mac. I am pretty sure its something with fuse and ntfs but I basically gave up Its just plugged into the Pi now.

[ICLlP]

So, how exactly are you connecting directly to your MacBook Pro?

[cmh714]

I shared out my Music folder and then I believe that I was able to use the CIFS setup in Rune. If it wasnt CIFS then I did it by NFS, as I also played around with adding the NFS stuff on the Mac side and that was super easy to setup as I recall

[ICLlP]

[cmh714]

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202243

http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/ ... nother-mac

[ICLlP]

That might be very useful. Thank you. I'll let you know how I get on.

[ICLlP]

Sorted!

System Preferences / Sharing / Options - turn on Share files and folders using SMB