I second that.  It seems to be very cantankerous.

Thanks,

James Spinti
jspinti at dartdist.com
952-368-3278 x396
fax 952-368-3255

|-----Original Message-----
|From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org
|[mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Jay Kline

|Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 3:03 PM
|To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
|Subject: RE: [TCLUG] vmware's samba server - woes
|
|
|The few times I worked with the smb server that came with VMWare, I was not
|impressed.  I dont know what they did to it, but I would recommend
|not using
|it, and instead using a real samba install.  It seems to work better.
|
|Jay
|
|-----Original Message-----
|From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org
|[mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Amy Tanner
|Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 2:57 PM
|To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
|Subject: [TCLUG] vmware's samba server - woes
|
|
|Any of you used the samba server provided with vmware 2.0?  i'm trying to
|get
|it setup.  my linux box can see the shares but the vmware/win2k box can't.
|the vmnet address vmware assigned to the samba server is 192.168.50.1
|[root at coug smb]# smbclient -L 192.168.50.1
|added interface ip=192.168.25.37 bcast=192.168.25.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
|added interface ip=192.168.50.1 bcast=192.168.50.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
|Password:
|Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.6]
|
|	Sharename      Type      Comment
|	---------      ----      -------
|	HostFS         Disk      VMware host filesystem
|	public         Disk      Public
|	IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (VMware host)
|	atebbe         Disk      Home directories
|
|	Server               Comment
|	---------            -------
|	COUG                 VMware host
|
|	Workgroup            Master
|	---------            -------
|	WORKGROUP            COUG
|
|
|but from windows box i try this from dos:
|
|net view \\192.168.50.1
|
|...and i get System Error 53 occurred. The network path not found.
|
|
|I've been going through the test steps in the samba diagnosis.txt file...
|
|Any ideas?
|
|--
|Amy Tanner
|amy at real-time.com
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