

(You will have to installed Windows.) Or to create a virtual machine on your Mac inside of which you also run genuine Windows, or a final possibility is to use CrossOver Mac which is a way of running some Windows applications on a Mac without having Windows itself. Really it sounds for your purposes you need 100% genuine Microsoft Access and the only way to do this is to use either Boot Camp which lets you boot your Mac in to real Windows. FileMaker which again does not sound suitable for your needs.īeyond that there are I believe some Mac programs for 'running' Access databases but again if this is for study purposes I would suggest they also are not suitable. There are various Access 'readers' for the Mac which do not sound sufficient for your needs, there is also a tool for converting Access files to other formats e.g. I wish I didn't have to, and I'd love to see a better solution.Genuine Microsoft Access only exists for Windows. It looks like WSL and Parallels aren't working so nicely together, so I sidestepped Parallels a bit.

Ls: reading directory '.': Invalid argument $ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\Mac\Home' /mnt/y Here is what happened: $ sudo mkdir /mnt/y

I went this route because attempting to mount the regular Parallels-shared Mac folder didn't work. I realize that the password issue is suboptimal. cd into the directory containing your hi.txt file.You can still write to the mounted share without sudo, and things will be owned by your user on the Mac side.) Don't worry that everything is owned by root. This section is optional, but is a nice sanity check. Optional: Verify RW access to the SMB share sudo mkdir /mnt/y (You can use whatever drive letter you chose earlier.).Choose a folder to mount and click OK.Type in your Mac username and password.Type in \\ followed by your IP address, and hit enter. This next step will result in an error at first, but that is ok.In the left pane, right-click Network, and choose Map Network Drive.Once Windows 10 has booted, open a Windows Explorer window.Remember the value in the IP Address field.Under "Status: Connected", in small text, there is a sentence that says " Parallels Host-Only #1 is currently active and has the IP address 10.37.129.2.") (If it's too long to see completely in the menu, you can check that you have the right one after you've clicked on it. In the left menu with your devices, click the one that says "Parallels Host-Only #1" or similar.

Put in your Mac account password and click OK. You may be warned that your password will be stored in a less secure manner.Check Share files and folders using SMB.In the leftmost menu, enable File Sharing and click on it.WSL bash is Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver).I found a way! In a nutshell, we mount an SMB share from the Mac inside of Windows (WSL) bash.
