Mounting Mac drive on Linux & vice versa?

[Oneechan69]

This seems like a deep rabbit hole so far. First I want to mount my mac drive on linux, for high-speed file transfers (read/write), they're connected with tailscale. For smb my mac username and password don't work. I tried nfs but can't find proper documentation for editing /etc/exports on macOS, right now I can't make it show subfolders and files.

What should I do? Is there any easy way to accomplish this?

 

[Bigwaff]

What should I do? Is there any easy way to accomplish this?

Have you tried mounting the Linux file system via SMB on the Mac?

 

[maflynn]

Here's my thoughts:
DAS - external drive, plug in the drive on your mac, copy your files, then plug that drive into your linux box?
NAS - network storage that both your mac and linux box as access. Cost and complexity is the downside.

Cloud based
DropBox - depending on your distro this may be a viable option. Debian based distros seem more likely to have less problems with dropbox.
pcloud - I'm looking into this myself.
proton drive - need rclone to access it, I'm having connectivity issues currently.

 

[mfram]

The other way I transfer file between MacOS and Linux is rsync+ssh. This seems to be faster than SMB in my experience. But this assumes you're familiar and comfortable with the Unix shell command line. There may be some Mac Apps that use rsync under the hood but I'm not familiar with them.

rsync+ssh can be used in either direction assuming you have the SSH server enabled on your Mac. MacOS calls it the Remote Login service.

Otherwise, create SMB shares on the Linux box and connect to it via Finder as mentioned above.

 

[judgeFire]

I have my linux server directories mounted on my Mac through MacFuse and SSHFS, but haven't tried the other way around. It's mostly ok, but I think the rsync route might be faster and more reliable.

 

[Oneechan69]

Thanks for all the answers, I've found hosting a webdav server with copyparty works really well, copyparty as a whole is very well made despite its very quirky interface, and having all the documentation right on the readme.