VMware and Samba

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Apr 7 19:30:53 UTC 2007


Guillermo Garron wrote:

> On 4/6/07, Dave M <DaveM at mich.com> wrote:
>> I am attempting to set up Samba to allow my VMware guest (win2k) to share
>> a folder on my Ubuntu system (v6.06 dapper). I used the HowTo
>> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=296668) as my guide. When i try
>> to make the conection (map \\Ubuntu\VMshare to a drive in Windows) I get
>> the following in my log file.
> 
> Just a few clues, (or questions ) to help you.
> 
> 1. Are you using Bridged LAN or NAT with your gest VM machine?
> If Nat are you able to ping from both sides? the Win2k to Dapper and
> Dapper to Win2k?

There should be a "host-only" LAN connection.
> 
> 2. It is just my opinion but I always prefer to use linux protocols to
> share info between win and linux, so maybe to install winscp or using
> ftp (the server could be any of the sides -or even both-) could be a
> less headache aproach.

Yuck!  That could be less headachy from the Linux side, but having to use a
poorly integrated Windows tool to move data to & from a server is a real
pain.  

Try just browsing the entire network in Windows, and see what you see.
-- 
derek





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