Mark Hull-Richter spake the following on 3/23/2007 4:46 PM:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Akemi Yagi Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:08 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] RE: Samba config for Windows on VMWare
If it is bridged, the client connects "directly" to the outside world. You would need to give a unique IP to your Windows.
Isn't there some way for a host to communicate with different parts of itself? If I run the smbclient on the host, it works fine - it acts sort of like ftp. I don't know if there's a Windows analog, but it seems that with at least different ports or something, it should be possible.
Otherwise, the VMWare Server virtual machines are completely isolated from their hosts and thus essentially worthless if any kind of data sharing is desired (like here), except via USB drives and/or CD/DVDs.
Is there another solution for data sharing between Linux and Windows on the same machine (with Linux being the native host OS)? Doesn't WINE do something like this?
Expecting the impossible, as usual, I suppose....
I think that is part of the vmware-tools, at least with a windows host and linux virtuals, I have gotten it to work. It is somewhere in the docs.