[Samba] vorkomg on vmware virtual machine
Mark Belfanti
mark at belfanti.com
Tue Sep 17 23:07:00 GMT 2002
Arthur van Dorp wrote:
> cferent wrote:
>
>> Do know a isue about Samba not working well an a vmware virtual
>> machine running on a Windows200 Server as host OS
>> Even if saw my virtual linux machine in Network Neighborhood i can't
>> acces it, I keep get an error message about not the network path been
>> invalid
>
>
> I don't think anyone here ever tried to run samba on vmware. I think
> there are a lot of possible issues with that. But if you really want
> to do this, I'd suggest to give the virtual linux(?)-server a
> different IP-Address than the windows machine it's running on. I don't
> know whether that is easily possible with vmware but I'd say it's
> important that the virtual machine is known on the intranet as an
> independent machine. Probably you even have to have a separat physical
> network interface. But I really can't see the point of this at all
> anyway.
>
> Arthur
>
>
Hi all,
you can make it work. You need to use bridges networking and assign a
separate IP address to the virtual machine.
As a point of interest VMWare under linux uses samba to make the host OS
available to the guest OS. No there is a commercial aspect of samba in
action ;-)
Mark
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