I wanted to share what I did to get around this. It worked nicely, just in case someone else stumbles upon this same question:
Setup Samba to Share on Ubuntu:
Edit this file:
emacs /etc/samba/smb.conf
Replace the "share definitions" section at the end with (replacing 'YOURHOSTNAME' with the name of your host):
[YOURHOSTNAME] comment = Shared Folder path = /home/username/shared create mask = 0644 directory mask = 0755 writeable = yes
Create a user (replacing "username' with your user account name):
smbpasswd -a username
Create the path set as the share point and restart Samba:
mkdir /home/username/shared chown username:username /home/username/shared /etc/init.d/samba restart
Then in the Macintosh:
- Finder: Go > Connect to Server
- Name: smb://yourhostname
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I also wanted to use Ubuntu as a webserver for Fusion 7. That's documented elsewhere, but I had trouble finding it. So here's what I did.
Setup a Host in Ubuntu:
Configure Apache in Ubuntu
Then configure hosts in your /etc/hosts file with localhost IPs
127.0.0.1 www.example.com
Configure /etc/hosts in Mac OS X with the same host name but the IP of your VM Ware OS:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx www.example.com.
Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx are derived by running ifconfig on the Ubuntu command line.
ifconfig
Look for the eth0 inet addr. That's the number you want to place in xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx of your /etc/hosts Mac OS X file.