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Title: C860 USB mount on a Mac?
Post by: Anonymous on February 09, 2004, 09:37:48 pm

I heard from someone that the USB mount feature in the C860 should work on the Mac.  Can anyone confirm or deny?  I don\'t really need to sync anything, so this would work great for me!

Thanks,
Jack

Title: C860 USB mount on a Mac?
Post by: zmike on February 10, 2004, 08:20:05 am

I usually simply resort to a USB cardreader on my Mac. Alot simpler! I also have been able to use the wireless card to mount OSX folders vis NFS - This requires setting up NFS exports on the Mac first.

Title: C860 USB mount on a Mac?
Post by: Stubear on February 10, 2004, 09:49:25 am

I can\'t confirm for a Mac, but the usb storage basically turns your Z into a usb card reader.

It works for me under Linux, Win98, Win2000, WinME & WinXP so I can\'t see why Mac wouldn\'t work as it has better usb support than all the windows versions

Title: C860 USB mount on a Mac?
Post by: keef on February 10, 2004, 04:01:48 pm

Works fine for me- except it mounts around 10 disk images on the desktop. Apart from this it works well on mac osx Panther.
Also allows writing of large files and folders and gives the correct disk space available on the card-unlike usb connect.

Title: C860 USB mount on a Mac?
Post by: Anonymous on February 10, 2004, 04:06:55 pm

Thanks for all the info...  Makes me feel a lot better about the idea.  Now to gather the cash...  

Jack

Title: C860 USB mount on a Mac?
Post by: macwiz on May 10, 2004, 12:38:05 pm

I too found that I got a load of disks on the desktop, and they just kept coming. (Cacko Qtopia ROM)

Sometime ago I had Sambaserver working on a 5500, and that mounted perfectly through a wireless connection.

Also, on the mac side, enabling the FTP server in the OSX network preferences gets me a really nice fast access to the whole OSX filesystem via OpieFTP wirelessly.

I haven\'t tried NFS yet.

Title: C860 USB mount on a Mac?
Post by: tz on May 12, 2004, 10:28:39 am

The mac usb driver is at:

http://www.lucid-cake.net/osx_zaurus_usb/index_en.html (http://www.lucid-cake.net/osx_zaurus_usb/index_en.html)

use \"guest\" as the user, no password to samba-mount.

Title: C860 USB mount on a Mac?
Post by: dhns on May 12, 2004, 11:23:52 am

There is also a Howto here on ZUG about connecting Mac and Zaurus:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...MacConnectivity (http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=MacConnectivity)

I think that Wiki page is waiting for additional material...

-- hns