Setting up Apple File Sharing

Here is one way to share files with macOS.

NOTE: The netatalk is not available for Jessie, it is only available in Stretch.

On the EV3:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install netatalk

On your Mac:

• Open Finder
• Open Preferences (⌘+,)
• Select the Sidebar page
• Under Shared, make sure Bonjour computers is checked
• Close the Preferences window
• Your EV3 will show up as ev3dev under Shared (if you changed the hostname of the EV3, the name will be different)
• Click on ev3dev
• Click the Connect As... button at the top right
• Enter your user name and password for the EV3 (robot and maker if you did not change the defaults)
• Finder will now show a Home Directory folder - this is the same as /home/robot/ on the EV3
• Double-click Home Directory to open it
• You can now browse and edit files on your EV3 remotely

Notes:

• This will take up a substantial amount of memory on your EV3
• You can use systemctl to control the service, for example, sudo systemctl disable netatalk will prevent it from running on boot and sudo systemctl enable netatalk will enable it again