SheepShaver file access

[J. Landman Gay]

Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Jacque,
> 
> Try setting the Unix root to something like "Users/Jacque/Sheepshaver/" 
> after creating a folder "Sheepshaver" in your home directory. Although I 
> have to restart once or twice sometimes, to make the Unix drive appear, 
> this works quite nicely for me.

It's already that way. :(

> 
> I was able to mount the local hard disk as a network drive, but since I 
> upgraded to Leopard, I was unable to do so.

I'm doing this in Tiger and it used to work. I'll double check all my 
settings though.

I did just figure out how to remount the shared drive. I feel stupid, 
it's so easy. I made an alias to it. When the drive is not mounted, I 
can double-click the alias and it comes back. Yay! Progress. :)

Jacque

> 
> I don't think the Basilisk and Sheepshaver were ever "supported". The 
> developers just work on it when they feel like it.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
> 
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> On 20 mei 2008, at 22:34, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> Any SheepShaver users out there? When I first set it up I was able to 
>> connect to the local machine via the Chooser and share files that way. 
>> Now when I try, it doesn't work. I have tried every combination of 
>> internet OS 9 settings I can think of and SheepShaver just freezes 
>> solid whenever I try to mount the main OS X drive (or my user folder). 
>> I have to force-quit SheepShaver and restart the virtual machine. 
>> Maybe I shouldn't have turned on TCP/IP?
>>
>> Giving up on that, I have been dismounting the shared drive, copying 
>> files to it, and then restarting the SheepShaver virtual machine in 
>> order to re-mount the shared drive. This is a pain in the patootie. 
>> Does anyone remember how to re-mount a drive in OS 9 without 
>> restarting the OS?  I'd rather have file sharing working, but at least 
>> if I could remount the shared drive that would be something.
>>
>> The author isn't supporting it any more, right? The latest version of 
>> SheepShaver I have is labeled May 2006.
>>
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>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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