samba in vmware?

[Greg Dickie]

RTFM? who me? never! Actually there are execs called vmware-nmbd and
vmware-smnd and vmware-smbpasswd so I'm guessing those are samba renamed. Its
not a problem I was just surprised to see it.

Greg


On 07-Feb-00 Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Greg Dickie [mailto:greg at discreet.com]
>> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 7:03 AM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
>> Subject: Re: samba in vmware?
>> 
>> 
>> me too.
>> 
>> I guess it saves you the trouble of getting samba yourself. 
>> I'm not sure how it
>> would act if you already had samba on the machine.
> 
> If you bother to read the help that 2.0beta provides when you run
> vmware-config.pl <grin>, you'll notice that it suggests that you DON'T allow
> it to set up samba if you already have it running.  From the looks of the
> files that shipped with my VMware install, it doesn't actually include
> Samba, but probably checks to see if you have samba, and then volunteers to
> configure it.  I heard that VMware has donated a handful (bunch?) of VMware
> licenses to the Samba gurus so that they can test NT-samba connectivity
> without so many PeeCees floating around, or so many reboots.
>       Greg L.

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