Jeff, I'm not sure I understand it completely, but I thought Karl's use of Samba was
for communications with VMware not access to Windows filesystems in general.
When I've used Samba to, for example, serve files from a Windows diskette across that
network from a Linux server to a Windows client, I've mounted the Windows f/s as
"vfat". So I think that implies that Samba is using the vfat file system code to
access the Windows media under Linux. Thus it seems to me that a Windows partition on
your local hard drive could be mounted "vfat" and accessed the same as it would be
remotely using Samba. In fact, I believe that's what my Caldera e-desktop does (only
thing the package does right, IMHO, btw). Not sure if it's mounted Read-Only or
Read-Write, and it's at home so I can't check at the moment. I don't think that I'd
have lots of fear about mounting RW, although I'd be especially careful to make sure
the backups were up to date first! Heck, with Windows that's a good idea anyway,
right? Who knows when Registry rot will strike?
I haven't gotten deeply into it, but there does seem to be a problem with VMware
getting file access outside of the emulated box. That Samba trick looks like a nice
one. Thanks, Karl!
--Bruce
Jeffry Smith wrote:
> "Karl J. Runge" wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bruce McCulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > (BTW, that reminds me of another
> > > question, about getting data in and out of a VMware app running on Linux, from
> > > native Linux files and.or devices - anyone have insight into such a thing?)
> >
> > I use samba to get data in/out of Vmware.
> >
> > My /etc/smb.conf needs to acknowledge the "fake" Vmware network interface
> > interface running, so I have:
> >
> > hosts allow = 192.168.0. ...
> >
> > and
> >
> > interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 ...
> >
> > In addition to a public share:
> >
> > [pub]
> > comment = Public Area for Windows Apps
> > path = /big/misc/smb_pub
> > read only = no
> > public = yes
> > writeable = yes
> > printable = no
> >
> Definately sounds better than what I was doing, which was mounting my
> Windows partion read-only on Linux. It allowed me to get stuff out, but
> not in. Thanks
>
> jeff
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