{"id":53491,"date":"2021-10-01T03:01:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=53491"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:26:11","slug":"finder-file-sharing-mac-with-mac-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/finder-file-sharing-mac-with-mac-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Finder File Sharing Mac with Mac Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/two_macs_share_via_finder_network.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Finder File Sharing Mac with Mac Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/two_macs_share_via_finder_network.gif\" title=\"Finder File Sharing Mac with Mac Tutorial\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finder File Sharing Mac with Mac Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;Mac to Mac&#8221; file sharing &#8220;dream&#8221; <font size=1>(of ours)<\/font> shares themes with <a title='File Server Sharing Mac with PC Tutorial' href='#fssmpct'>File Server Sharing Mac with PC Tutorial<\/a> below.  Unlike below, though, our &#8220;dream&#8221; incorporated the use of our beloved <a target=_blank title='FileZilla sftp\/ftp' href='https:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/'>FileZilla<\/a> sftp web server access desktop application&#8217;s involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds cute, huh?!  But <a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/filezilla_smb_two_macs_failure.gif' title='Oops'>trying to do it<\/a> and <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/two_macs_share_via_finder_network.gif\" title=\"Click picture\"><i>doing it<\/i><\/a> are two different things, and we wish we&#8217;d discovered the &#8220;misnomerly named&#8221; <a target=_blank href='https:\/\/forum.filezilla-project.org\/viewtopic.php?t=8687' title='Using Filezilla with Samba'>Using Filezilla with Samba<\/a> a lot earlier.  It doesn&#8217;t seem to be achievable with <font size=1>(<a target=_blank title='Samba on Linux' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samba_%28software%29'>Samba<\/a> themed)<\/font> hostnames like smb:\/\/users-mbp or smb:\/\/192.168.0.10 trying ports like 139 or 445.<\/p>\n<p>And so we pared back the complexity of our <a target=_blank title=Apple href='http:\/\/apple.com'>Apple<\/a> thinking back to &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open macOS <a target=_blank title='Finder information from Apple' href='https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201732'>Finder<\/a> window(s)<\/li>\n<li>click Network icon(s) at the left<\/li>\n<li>if your partnering Mac is there you should be able to file share both ways to folders like &#8220;Downloads&#8221; and &#8220;Documents&#8221; and maybe &#8220;Desktop&#8221; between the two Macs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; but if you should find no Network icon in the Finder window you may need to &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open System Preferences&#8230; &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>click Sharing icon &#8230; and we seemed to need to &#8230;\n<ol>\n<li>set on Remote Login permissions &#8230; and &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>set on File Sharing permissions along with setting on any relevant username(s) in the Options button menu&#8217;s list of checkboxes (where you get the chance to define username relevant password(s))<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; to start seeing that Network icon in the relevant Finder window.  And we were then able to <font size=1>(basically follow our &#8220;usual Finder <\/font><font color=red size=1>nose<\/font><font size=1>&#8221; regarding)<\/font> file share transfer between a &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MacBook Pro under macOS Mojave 10.14.6 &#8230; and &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>MacBook Air under macOS Big Sur 11.6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among other macOS (and iOS) File Sharing ideas are your, perhaps, more conventional desktop application\/hardware ideas such as &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=_blank title='AirDrop' href='https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-au\/HT204144'>AirDrop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='Mail app information from Apple' href='https:\/\/www.apple.com\/au\/support\/mac-apps\/mail\/'>Mail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='Messages app information from Apple' href='https:\/\/www.apple.com\/au\/support\/mac-apps\/messages\/'>Messages<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Removeable Media (via USB or writeable DVD)<\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title=DropBox href='https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/'>DropBox<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and\/or for that initial &#8220;big time&#8221; copy, think about <a target=_blank title='Migration Assistant app information from Apple' href='https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT204350'>Migration Assistant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--p>You can also see this play out at WordPress 4.1.1's <a target=_blank  href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/finder-file-sharing-mac-with-mac-tutorial\/'>Finder File Sharing Mac with Mac Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p-->\n<hr>\n<p id='fssmpct'>Previous relevant <a target=_blank title='File Server Sharing Mac with PC Tutorial' href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/file-server-sharing-mac-with-pc-tutorial\/'>File Server Sharing Mac with PC Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/FileSharing\/Mac\/textedit.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"File Server Sharing Mac with PC Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/FileSharing\/Mac\/FileServer_MacPC_Sharing.jpg\" title=\"File Server Sharing Mac with PC Tutorial\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Server Sharing Mac with PC Tutorial<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/TextEdit\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"PC Html\/Doc to Pdf via Mac TextEdit Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/TextEdit\/HtmlDocPdf_Primer.jpg\" title=\"PC Html\/Doc to Pdf via Mac TextEdit Primer Tutorial\"   \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">PC Html\/Doc to Pdf via Mac TextEdit Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Found this tutorial very interesting.   It can be wasteful to overlook simple things.   Take, for example the humble Mac application called <a target=_blank title='TextEdit support from Apple' href='http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT2523'>TextEdit<\/a>.   From now on, am going to call it <strong><em>&#8220;The Broker&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>.   The reason is, it is a simple application probably intended as a Text Editor (but Apple calls it a Word Processor, and now understand them to be correct) by real trade (here my personal Mac favourite is <a target=_blank title='TextWrangler download page' href='https:\/\/www.macupdate.com\/app\/mac\/11009\/textwrangler'>TextWrangler<\/a>), but over time being the Mac OS X flagship for flexibility, so over time &#8230; am guessing? &#8230; it has been given some really cute features.   It reads *.htm* HTML files, it reads *.doc* Microsoft Word document files &#8230; not perfectly, for the more complicated scenarios but really very well for text items, for example.   Well, that is good, but it also Exports PDF &#8230; so <a target=_blank title=' ... have been waiting ...' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=1819'>finally<\/a> we have a tutorial about one of the big ticket protocol-type items of the net, the PDF file.   We need Wikipedia while we take a bex!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to represent documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.[1] Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. In 1991, Adobe Systems co-founder John Warnock outlined a system called &#8220;Camelot&#8221;[2] that evolved into PDF.<\/p>\n<p>While Adobe Systems made the PDF specification available free of charge in 1993, PDF remained a proprietary format, controlled by Adobe, until it was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008.[3][4] In 2008, Adobe published a Public Patent License to ISO 32000-1 granting royalty-free rights for all patents owned by Adobe that are necessary to make, use, sell and distribute PDF compliant implementations.[5]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, today we do some imperfect conversions, warts and all, but you have to see how good using humble old TextEdit (free with a Mac laptop, for example) <strong><em>&#8220;The Broker&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> can be to write out some PDF, and so have another way in to useful (local <a target=_blank title='MAMP web server tutorial' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=933'>MAMP web server<\/a> (in the case of this tutorial, but the woorrrld is your <a target=_blank title='Sea Change ... Bay of Pearls ... Pearl Bay ... yes!!!' href='http:\/\/profileengine.com\/people\/mightbesomewhere\/lisa.hall#\/groups\/profile\/425220003\/bay-of-pearlspearl-bay'>oyster<\/a>))) web work (because PDF=&#8221;useful web work&#8221; &#8230; it is well supported for web and mobile apps).   The last slide of tutorial (and of picture above) sums up what this tutorial&#8217;s aim is:<\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p>Overview (starting at PC):<\/p>\n<p>1)  Started with a website (expressed with an *.htm* URL)<br \/>\n2)  Used command line invocation of Microsoft Word on a PC to open the URL of 1)<br \/>\n3)  Saved the data as a) Web page (*.htm) and b) Word document (*.doc) to Samba Shared Directory<\/p>\n<p>4)  \u2026 left PC \u2026 went to Mac laptop \u2026<\/p>\n<p>5) Opened 3) a) Samba Shared Directory *.htm file using Mac application TextEdit (&#8220;the broker&#8221;)<br \/>\n6) Exported to MAMP home directory as RJMProgrammingHHomePBitMashedUp.pdf<br \/>\n7) Opened 3) b) Samba Shared Directory *.doc file using Mac application TextEdit (&#8220;the broker&#8221;) &#8230; so, in this tutorial (only), can be called http:\/\/localhost:8888\/RJMProgrammingHHomePBitMashedUp.pdf in any web browser (if MAMP is up and going)<br \/>\n8) Exported to MAMP home directory as RJMProgrammingWHomePBitMashedUp.pdf (if you get <a target=_blank title='Emoticon information from Wikipedia' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emoticon'>emoticon<\/a> here, well, that&#8217;s a bonus!) &#8230; so, in this tutorial (only), can be called http:\/\/localhost:8888\/RJMProgrammingWHomePBitMashedUp.pdf in any web browser (if MAMP is up and going)<\/p>\n<p>9) Opened <a target=_blank title='Downloadable RJMProgrammingHHomePBitMashedUp.pdf' href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/TextEdit\/RJMProgrammingHHomePBitMashedUp.pdf\">RJMProgrammingHHomePBitMashedUp.pdf<\/a> in Adobe Reader and <a title='Downloadable RJMProgrammingWHomePBitMashedUp.pdf' target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/TextEdit\/RJMProgrammingWHomePBitMashedUp.pdf\">RJMProgrammingWHomePBitMashedUp.pdf<\/a> in Preview<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 things get lost in translation, to varying degrees, but this shows you what is possible, easily, with simple HTML elements.   Chow.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are some good background reading for the concepts of these tutorials all via Wikipedia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=_blank title='File Server' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_server\u200e'>File Server<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='File Sharing' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_Sharing'>File Sharing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='Samba on Linux' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samba_%28software%29'>Samba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='PDF' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portable_document_format'>PDF<\/a> (as per quote way above)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d4343' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d4343\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?cat=64#content\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d4343' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d53491' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d53491\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/finder\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d53491' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;Mac to Mac&#8221; file sharing &#8220;dream&#8221; (of ours) shares themes with File Server Sharing Mac with PC Tutorial below. 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