Vmware and samba

Raúl Moratalla raul.moratalla at ono.com
Mon Jul 12 08:03:25 UTC 2004


Wolfgang Gill escribió:

>On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:11:16 +0200, Raúl Moratalla wrote
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>>Hi!
>>
>>I have tried to configure samba with vmware for share files between 
>>Linux and my virtual machine (windows me) but I can't see in my 
>>virtual machine the directory that I share in Linux. I read some 
>>documentation about samba, I modified the file 
>>/etc/vmware/vmnet1/smb.conf and I added a network connection in 
>>Windows Me but I am a newbie with networks and I can't get it 
>>working :(
>>
>>I will very pleased if anyone could explain to me all the steps that 
>>I need for sharing files between Linux and vmware.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Raul
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>Temporarly turn off your Firewall and see how that goes. I've had similar
>problems with Samba, in that I could see the share (I use Linneighborhood to
>do this, in KDE), but I couldn't mount it. Turning off the firewall then
>allowed me to mount the share. I still have not found out which port is being
>blocked, but when I do I'll need to add it to the firewall script. (That's if
>anyone else knows which port has been added to Samba that the standard
>firewall rules don't know about.)
>
>Wolf
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Thanks a lot Wolfang, if I turn off the firewall I can see the shared 
folders :)

Cheers,

Raúl





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