Re: [LUG] vmware virtual network

[David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raysmith wrote:

> I am have vmware workstation 3 on my suse 8 installation. It works quite
> nicely with win98 and all eye candy turned off. I can connect up to the net
> with aol and even send & receive email through it.
>
> What I am stuck with is getting linux as the host talking to the guest os.
>
> What I want to do is fire up win98 & aol so that I can browse & download
> software using my fixed pricing plan. I often browse the internet this way
> and you can see from my  headers this is usually how I send @ receive email.
>
> But I still have to download in genuine windows then reboot to copy what I
> have downloaded across.
>
> I don't have a real network card just the virtual vmware network drivers
> which are set up during install ( Host only Networking )
>
> Anyone have any experience of setting it up so I can connect , download ,
> then copy the files across from the virtual windows machine to linux so I
> can do all this without rebooting as then I will rarely need to boot into
> `real` windows at all.
>
> Especially now that I have my cd writing cracked.
>
> Ray
>
>  
IIRC, doesn't VMWare have an option to automatically setup a Samba 
server when you run "vmware-config.pl" ?
I'm pretty sure that it does, I think it calls it "Allowing the guest OS 
to access to host filesystem" or something like that.


David.

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