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# Connecting the Wave to Mac or Linux

This article covers the steps to connect your Wave to Mac or Linux to retrieve packet captures and Wi-Fi Checker reports.

 

For Mac users:

Open Finder, then press ⌘+K to launch the "Connect to Server" Window.  
In this Window type in: nfs://wave.local/shared and click connect.

This will then open a window to retrieve the files.

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For Linux Users:

First install nfs-utils and nfsv4-client-utils if they are not already installed.

Connect to the Wave via command line using the following commands:

mkdir -p wave  
sudo mount -tnfs \[Wave IP address\]/ wave

 

 Example: sudo mount -tnfs 192.168.144.1:/ wave

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To disconnect the Wave, type the following command: 

sudo unmount wave

 

 

 

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