ubuntu xp vmware cluster f...er...filesharing

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 10/9/06, Eric S. Johansson <esj at harvee.org> wrote:
> here's the scene.  I can't get away from XP.  Speech recognition, yada
> yada yada.  I am running VM Ware with ubuntu in a couple of virtual
> machines.  My goal is to have a common workspace between any number of
> virtual machines.  The common workspace should be accessible no matter
> which combination of virtual machines are running.  For example if I
> have one or five, the same workspace should be available to all of them.
>   in fact, even if no virtual machines are running, the workspace should
> be available because I am going to do all of my backups from XP
> (unfortunately :-| ).
>
> I've tried the built-in file sharing but it fails because permissions
> are always 600 and owned by root.  Those permissions and ownership are
> fraudulent because the VMWare file sharing code ignores permissions and
> ownership (because it can).  This screws me up because as I create
> Python modules in this common space, it installs them with the wrong
> user ID and permissions which makes it damn difficult for processes
> under different user IDs  to use.
>
> I tried Samba but I could not get ubuntu to consistently (i.e. rarely)
> see the filesystem exporter from XP.  The filesystem navigator can see
> it and I could login etc. but I couldn't find or mount the Samba volume.
>   I'm also not comfortable that it will handle permissions correctly either.
>
> I considered NFS but the Microsoft SFU has apparently reached
> end-of-life and appears not to be available anymore
>
> I will admit a bit of dismay at my inability to accomplish should be a
> really simple thing.  Am I missing something?  How can I store vm ubuntu
> files on XP, maintain user and group ID, permissions etc. and still have
> the ability to back up from XP without a virtual machine running?
>
> Am looking forward to your counsel.

I don't know what problems are you really experiencing, cause I have
used VMware shared folders and SAMBA in the past with no problems.
Maybe if you go into more detail, we can help.