Mac OS X

 

Requirements

After launching Air Sharing, you may connect to it from a Mac OS X computer by following these steps:

Connecting to the iOS Device

Start the Finder application:

 

Connect with Bonjour

You may also mount your iOS Device by name, using Bonjour. Touch the Wi-Fi button on Air Sharing’s file browser screen to see alternate addresses that can be used to access Air Sharing. The advantage of using the Bonjour address is that it will always be the same, whereas the IP address may change from one day to the next.


Connecting Securely with SSL

Air Sharing supports secure SSL connections.


Finder will prompt you to confirm you wish to connect with the following message. The certificate for this WebDAV Server is invalid. You might be connecting to a WebDAV server that is pretending to be which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to connect to the WebDAV server anyway?

You can safely select "Continue" in order to connect and mount Air Sharing.

 

 

Press the “Connect” button, and if you set a sharing username and password you will be presented with a dialog in which to enter them. You can choose to allow the Keychain to remember this username and password.

 

After authenticating, Finder will present you with a network-mounted connection to the iPhone. You can now drag and drop files to your iOS Device, and create, delete, and rename folders and files.


If you have set up Finder’s Preferences to Show “connected servers” on the Desktop, you will also see a disk image on the Desktop.

 

Fast Access

After you have mounted your Air Sharing disk once, you may simplify future access by creating an alias to it, or to any folder in it. You can do this simply by selecting the folder in Finder, and selecting the File > Make Alias menu item. Alternatively, you can drag the folder onto the Dock. Later, when you want to copy a document onto this device, simply launch Air Sharing, double-click the alias (or click the Docked icon) to open the folder, and then drag your document onto the folder.