titon Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Hey Folks, I was upgrading some hard drives and wanted to do some basic unraid house keeping. I always have an issue with MC. I see the menu, but I can never navigate properly within the app to move files around. I wanted to see if there was any other GUI server side file management application other than Midnight Commander? I know I can just map the drives to my local computer, but that would just route traffic to my computer before putting back on the server. I was hoping for someway to move files easily on the server. If anyone has a suggestions, or can tell me why I have this weird MC issues, that would be great. Thanks again. - Ton Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Take a look at this tutorial for MC, and see if that helps. http://www.tecmint.com/midnight-commander-a-console-based-file-manager-for-linux/ Quote Link to comment
titon Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Jonathanm, Thanks for the tutorial, it was great I think i found my problem. Well.. maybe a workaround for MC. If i use Terminal via OSX and go to MC.. it just doesn't work right at all. Maybe its my terminal type or what not, but I am no expert at linux. If I use Putty from my windows box, and then MC on my unraid.. guess what.. it works awesome!! I am actually able to use my mouse and click on the vairous menu options, which is great. Now I need to see if I can get the same experience on my OSX. _ Ton Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Now I need to see if I can get the same experience on my OSX.I'm not a mac guy, so I can't comment directly, but I can google. http://codingsteps.com/installing-and-using-putty-on-mac-os-x/ Quote Link to comment
megalodon Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 I really couldn't get to grips with MC on my mac so I do everything across the network, Also this ensures that I don't have any problems with illegal characters that MC can't process. A few users reported issues with MC copying illegal characters but maybe it has been sorted now, Im not sure but its so much easier for me over the network. Quote Link to comment
titon Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Now I need to see if I can get the same experience on my OSX.I'm not a mac guy, so I can't comment directly, but I can google. http://codingsteps.com/installing-and-using-putty-on-mac-os-x/ LOL.. thanks Jonathanm.. Since I can natively do in terminal on OSX, I never tried to load Putty. Since you found something, I will give it a shot. Thanks again. - Ton Quote Link to comment
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