Share Data on several VMs

[flexmex]

Hi

We are 5 employees and every one has his own desktop (vm). How we can share data like in Windows by a network drive (NTFS) ? Every one want just a P: Drive to share data.

What is a simple solution or the best solution, without buying additional software etc.

please advice

Config:

VDI Starter Kit 3 (VDM 2.1)

no SAN yet

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

Can you create another VM for your file server? An easy way to do it would be create another VM, create the share, and then create a batch file in put it into each users startup to net use P:
server\share.

Or... are you in a domain? There are many way to do this. You could also create the share on one of the 5 systems, and have the users map back to the master PC.

It should be simple Windows file sharing, nothing to do with VDI or ESX.

my two cents.

[flexmex]

yes we can create another vm.

so you mean just create a "master vm" (could be a Windows Server) that must always run for share the drive.

i think its a good way.

what do you mean about a domain solution ?

thanks a lot

[Troy_Clavell]

you could always create a small Active Directory enviornment, with login scrips, but to get what you need quickly, a file server would be a good option.