> -----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....