Hello,
There are some security related reasons why you do not want to go down this route but there is another route to go down and that is to use an NFS share from your windows device. This way your ISO repository can appear as a datastore within VMware ESX 4.
In many cases using an NFS datastore will be quite a bit better moving forward.
however you could check out /etc/vmware/configrules to determine if your mounted CIFS share is available to be used for ISO images.
Best regards,
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