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NOTE: In order to get this working, you will need access to a real Mac in order to download High Sierra.
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To make things a little easier for people, we’ve combined methods from a few different forum threads into a single, step-by-step tutorial, complete with screenshots. Other than that, though, this is macOS High Sierra, running smoothly in VirtualBox.
The only thing not working is sound, which for some reason is highly distorted or nonexistent. Some of the folks at the InsanelyMac forums have figured out a process that works. We haven’t yet tested it ourselves, but we’ve heard good things. It promises to take you through the process of installing and setting up a macOS virtual machine.
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If you want to install a newer version of macOS in VirtualBox, check out this script on GitHub. It’s not a precise replacement, but it’s all you’ve got now.Update: The instructions here apply to older versions of macOS. It turns out they’re just gone.įor iOS folder sharing, Apple recommends users turn to the built-in collaboration options in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. If you were a fan of FTP, or file sharing with iOS, you might be wondering where they went. But what was a paid feature is now free, so pros and cons I suppose. This isn’t a complete replacement: Git repositories can no longer be locally hosted, for example. The Xcode Server functionality is now found in Xcode itself: just click Xcode > Xcode Server in the menu bar and you can enable the feature. An Xcode server allows multiple people to work on the same project at once, and until recently creating an Xcode server required macOS Server. Xcode is Apple’s development environment, and is widely used to make macOS and iOS software.
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Just like that your macOS, iOS, and Apple TV devices will have a local cache to work with for everything from iTunes downloads to software updates. Content caching speeds up downloads on all Apple devices by storing anything you download locally, meaning they’ll download nearly instantly the second time.Įnabling this feature previously required macOS Server, but with High Sierra you can simply head to System Preferences > Sharing and enable the “Content Caching” option. If you live in a house with multiple Apple devices, you’re probably using up bandwidth on downloading the same updates, media, and iCloud documents to each individual update. RELATED: How to Speed Up Downloads on Your Mac, iPhone, and iPad with Content Caching You could set up a dedicated Time Machine server, or you could back up your Macs to each other. Just like that, all computers on your network will see your shared folder as a potential Time Machine destination. Now you can simply open Advanced Options for a folder and enable Time Machine. Previously it was only proper to run a proper Time Machine server using macOS Server, unless you were willing to use a workaround. Speaking of the Advanced Options: you can now set up your Mac as a networked Time Machine drive. RELATED: How to Set Up Your Mac to Act as a Networked Time Machine Drive This is by no means a feature complete replacement for what was offered by macOS Server, but it gets the major features, and it’s more than non-Server users had before. You also have the option to allow or block guest users, and only allow encrypted connections.
If youshare a folder on a macOS Extended (HFS+) drive, you’ll still have the option for AFP. AFP is incompatible with APFS, Apple’s new file system, so that option will be greyed out on APFS drives, as shown above. RELATED: APFS Explained: What You Need to Know About Apple's New File SystemĪFP was Apple’s proprietary protocol SMB is the open source, windows-compatible protocol Apple now recommends. The first field will ask whether you’re sharing over SMB, AFP, or both. Right click a shared folder, then click “Advanced Options” to find them. The preference pane has a few new advanced features, previously exclusive to Server, in order to ease this transition. Instead, everything to do with file sharing is found in System Preferences under Sharing. It’s weird, but the latest version of macOS Server doesn’t offer local network file sharing.