Getting Ubuntu and OS X to share your filesystem using VMware

From Neural Wiki

So getting your Mac not to suck is not easy. Certain things that are free and easy to install in Windows of Linux are next to impossible to get working on OS X....unless you want to pay for a package. So the best way to make your Mac awesome is to pay VMware $70 for VMware fusion (great package, but see you have to pay...but only once) and install Ubuntu as a virtual machine.

So install VMware, then download Ubuntu (I went with 8.04 since its the most stable right now). Open VMware and set up a new virtual machine, pick your Ubuntu iso location (your Ubuntu download). When you are setting up Ubuntu, pick a user name that is not the one you want to end up using later.

Finish the install.

Go to your Mac desktop and open up the terminal and type in id

Record your uid number (mine was 502)...being a mac it should be 501 or 502 depending how many users you have

Then open up System ->Administration -> Users and Groups

Unlock

Then add a new user.

set up the user name you want, then go to the Advanced tab and set the user id to your mac id.

Close this, log out and log back in with this id.

Now you will be able to go to /mnt/fsgh/ and access all of the mac files!

Enjoy