How do I share files with a Mac?

Question

I'm trying to share some files with my macbook (running OS X El Capitan v10.11.4) so that I can edit them without uploading them after each edit.

I've tried this guide and I can connect to the pi and see the shares. When I try and access them though, I get this:

The operation can't be completed because the original item for "home" can't be found.

Why would I get that message?

[Edit] @ Milliways - this is step by step what I did:

1. Downloaded NOOBS to install Raspbian from the raspberry pi website.
2. Set a static IP address on the PI.
3. Enabled SSH access.
4. Ran the sequence of commands* below.
5. Connected from my Macbook to the Raspberry PI in OSX Finder and selected whereupon I could see the default share that netatalk suggests.
6. Clicked on the home share and when prompted, entered the pi | raspberry default pi credentials.

*Sequence of commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install netatalk
sudo /etc/init.d/netatalk stop
sudo nano /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default
sudo /etc/init.d/netatalk start

...and that's when I got the error message mentioned above.

[Edit2] - This is what my netatalk file changes look like:

# The line below sets some DEFAULT, starting with Netatalk 2.1.
:DEFAULT: allow:pi options:upriv,usedots,noadouble,rw

# By default all users have access to their home directories.
~/                      "home"
/                       "pi-root"

Answer 1

As Apple abandoned AFP in favor of SMB3 you should try using samba instead.

Answer 2

You have followed an old SysV guide, and probably messed something up. See https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/39665/8697 - all you should NEED to do is install netatalk. You could then customise /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default, but this is NOT necessary to get home.

I use netatalk all the time, and often cannot connect, after my Mac has been sleeping, so I restart the service on the Pi with sudo systemctl restart netatalk.

Answer 3

try NFS protocol, which is native for Unix* OS-es and is fast

1. Share a directory in RPi (/etc/exports)
2. Mount it from Mac (sudo mount -o rsize=32768,wsize=32768,intr,noatime -t nfs RPi_IP_addr:/sharename /folder_to_mount_it )

or Using SSHFS which is slower, but secure (encrypted)

1. Enable ssh on RPi
2. Install sshfs client on Mac (http://osxfuse.github.io/)
3. Mount SSH resource on Mac (sshfs user@RPi_IP_addr:/dir /mount_folder -ocache=no -onolocalcaches -ovolname=ssh)

Samba also should work