Connecting SE/30 to Dropbox, success!

#1 Sat, 8 Jan 2011 - 15:41

I was going to type up a long post, but not sure if anyone would have any interest.

http://twitpic.com/3o5nuu/full

If your curious how I accomplished this,let me know and I'll get a post up.

Thanks

#2 Sat, 8 Jan 2011 - 15:43

I just realized the smaller version is actually easier to see:

http://twitpic.com/3o5nuu

#3 Sat, 8 Jan 2011 - 16:49

Yes! Please write a posting about it!

I'm always very much intereste in connecting old Mac's to new things!

#4 Sat, 8 Jan 2011 - 17:04

I know this may seem as a dumb question, but what is dropbox? have a link?

#5 Sat, 8 Jan 2011 - 19:26

The Drop Box is a write-only folder in OS X. The folder is part of the [yourHDname]/Users/[yourusername]/Public/Drop Box path, and is designed to allow alien individuals to "drop off" folders to your system without intruding on the entire root directory (as with previous systems). This does not prohibit the user from sharing the entire root directory (all folders, all files) or specific folders on the network.

#6 Sat, 8 Jan 2011 - 19:27

Dropbox gives you 2GB free space on signup but up to 16GB free through referrals.

You can sign up here (to give you and myself a free 250mb

)

http://db.tt/wmw4vft

#7 Sat, 8 Jan 2011 - 20:01

Outstanding. Tell us how. I see Windows logos on the shares, so was this through SMB?

#8 Sun, 9 Jan 2011 - 13:43

Today is looking to be a lot busier then I thought so here is the super short version, feel free to ask questions.

Server 2003 Running Appletalk on VMWare fusion on my Mac Pro. (puny image with hardly any RAM or Hard Drive)

Install Dropbox on Server and Share the dropbox folder via AFP

Connect SE/30 to Win Server and DONE

Fully connected to the cloud!

I use the SE/30 as a "Distraction Free Writing Zone" so this is a perfect solution to get my files backed up and accessible from my other machines when I want to pretty up the text in Pages or print etc.n Plus no worries about storing data on the internal drive that will probably fail any second!

Thanks!

#9 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 - 03:31

A simpler approach may be to simply turn on FTP sharing on your Mac Pro. That way you can access anything on your Mac Pro, including mounted network shares, all the way back to a Mac Plus with Fetch.

#10 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 - 03:44

Napabar, maybe, but this way its just File - Save and Done from Microsoft Word, no pushing files around and everything is up on the cloud with full versioning. For my writing application, I can't see how it can get much better.

#11 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 - 03:49

Agreed, it's not as nice as having a mounted disk, but less overhead. I've done similar things running XP in VirtualBox, and used PCMACLAN to share out my iDisk and Time Capsule, so that a Mac 512K could access them. I felt dirty using Windows. Still looking for a more "Mac" way to do it. :lol: