----- Original Message ----- > Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:53:32 -0700 > From: "Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Samba config for Windows on VMWare > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > > NAT is in fact exactly what you want here, I think. VMware will > assign an IP from one of the unrouted ranges that are reserved for > LANs for cummunication between the host and guest, but any connections > from the guest to the internet will be translated to/from the host's > DSL IP. Thanks - tried it and got this popup window: Could not open /dev/vmnet8: no such file or directory.Virtual device Ethernet0 will start disconnected. Do I just go ahead and mknod /dev/vmnet8 or is there more to it? Better, where is a good (and hopefully simple) reference for this? Thanks (again). mhr