Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > ----- 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? > You need to set up the NAT interface when you run vmware-config.pl. You probably just told it to do bridged the first time but you can run it again to add nat and/or host-only. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com