Shared folders a the simplest, however, you can map drives from windows to linux using samba.
Take a look at smbmount
Thanks Liz,
Can you paste me some link to get familiar with shared folder? I am a bit new to use VMware.
Or how to get started with Samba? I've googled the stuff but its bit confusing...can you suggest some way to do this.
Regards.
If you use the vmware shared folders the areas you share from your host will be under /mnt/hgfs/
smbmount has plenty of examples on how to use it, try "man smbmount"
but you can use things like
mount -t smbfs -o username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/test
Liz, I tried "sharedfolders" under xp guest and thats good, it works. Now i want to use the same sharefolder setup under linux guest, so how can I do so...
Thank you for the help.
Regards.
enable the vm shared folders (edit vm settings / options / shared folders --- click the help button for more info on shared folders)
for a linux guest install the vmware guest tools ...
you can find the shared folder in /mnt/hgfs
Create them under the linux guest exactly the way you did for the windows guest, and as I previously mentioned they will appear under /mnt/hgfs on the linux guest - but only if you have the tools installed!
Hi,
I did the same, as you mentioned and Liz too, but the problem is how to get this share folder accessible under Linux guest, probably I am missing something in configuring network connection with Host....
perhaps it is the workstation 5.5.3 that doesn't behave like version 6? ... I missed this detail ... I based my answer on version 6 ... Liz's answer to use smbmount and example syntax to use mount -t smbfs is correct ... it is how I use a linux client anyway ... but if you are going to use smbmount then you have to enable file sharing on your xp host (right click a folder to share / share) ... you will want to check the firewall settings to make sure the file/printer sharing ports are allowed.
Yes, you are right, its 5.5.3, and I am not aware of v6. I was refering to sharedfolders, so any idea to make it functional in 5.5.3?
I don't know about VMware's shared folders but, I've got samba up and sharing folders between Suse Linux (host) and XP(guest) most Linux distros have a fairly easy to set up GUI for samba these days. What distro are you running?
Yes, you are right, its 5.5.3, and I am not aware of v6. I was refering to sharedfolders, so any idea to make it functional in 5.5.3?
Yes ... use a supported linux kernel found in the vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/binary folder ...
then make sure you install the vmware-tools in the linux client ... specifically make sure your vmhgfs module is built for your kernel!
then shared folders works just like referenced above for vmware-workstation-6
helpful linux client commands: vmhgfsclient and mount -a -t vmhgfs