Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:21:24 -0500 From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Samba config for Windows on VMWare To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Mark Hull-Richter wrote:>> >> The vmware client is using a bridged Ethernet adapter (meaning same as >> the host, I think). > >"Bridged" means the guest shares the host's network adapter directly but >it looks like a completely different system to everyone else including >the host - that is, it needs its own IP address on the same subnet. > >Once that is set up, sharing files is exactly the same as with any other >machine on the network. > Okay, I understand that. However, my computer is linked up to a DSL modem and has no subnet, per se, and the DSL host assigns my IP address. So: 1) Is tehre a way I can get around this and give my Windows VM its own IP address (and how)? 2) If not, how would I set up one of the other ethernet types to make this work? NAT doesn't look right for this, and I don't know enough to do a custom network, so that hints to me that host-only might work, but that calls for a vmnet1 device on the host, and I know nothing about this (but I will look - just hoped for a quickie answer here...). Thanks.