> > Sounds like you have VMware configured so that it can't see the local > host. There's 4 options when you set up VMware, and I can't for the life > of me remember the option you need to choose, but if you're set up in > host-only (I think that's what you're in) you can't even ping your own > workstation. "If you chose to install Samba when you installed VMware Workstation -- or if you already had Samba configured appropriately on your host -- the guest operating system can share files with the host using the facilities of the host-only network" -- VMWARE.com http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/networking_linux.html so that doesnt seem to be in...