[CentOS] Re: Samba config for Windows on VMWare

[Scott Silva]

Mark Hull-Richter spake the following on 3/23/2007 4:46 PM:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>> Behalf Of Akemi Yagi
>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:08 PM
>> To: centos at 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.

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