Sharing files between VMWare XP installation and Kubuntu

[Henri Girard]

Normally if you have vmware tools installed you should be able to copy  
/paste
i get vmware station  I installed tools and then you keep tools installed  
with vmplayer
Henri
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:21:06 +0200, Douglas Ward <dward at nccumc.org> wrote:

> The current version of VMWare has the ability to connect to a local  
> folder
> on the kubuntu machine (I use it so I know it works).  Edit your virtual
> machine settings and investigate Shared Folders.
>
> On 9/18/06, Hamish <captainmish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday 16 September 2006 18:59, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> > How would I go about moving files between Kubuntu and an installtion
>> > of XP on VMWare? Until now I've been using a USB drive, but now I need
>> > to move a 1 GB file and it doesn't fit. I thought about using FTP with
>> > the server on Kubuntu and the client on XP. But, what IP address do I
>> > access Kubuntu with?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Dotan Cohen
>> > http://ie-only.com
>>
>> Hi Dotan
>> The easy (TM) way to do this would be to find out what ip address the
>> windows
>> guest has (open a command prompt in xp, then type 'ipconfig'), then
>> connect
>> to it from konqueror via smb://username@ip.add.re.ss/c$ where username  
>> is
>> an
>> administrative user, ip.add.re.ss is the ip of the guest and c$ is the
>> administrative share for a drive (can be d$, e$ etc as well). If you
>> cannot
>> connect like that, go to the xp guest, browse to the folder you want to
>> copy,
>> right-click and choose sharing, and share the folder. Once that is done,
>> you
>> can connect with konq again to smb://user@ip/sharename. Remember that  
>> you
>> will need to check the box "allow network users to modify these files"  
>> or
>> something similar if you want to copy files *to* the xp guest.
>> HTH
>> H
>>
>>
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