have you done the hack to the registry described in the code manual page. Microsoft keep moving the goalposts and my memory fades, but I use cifs to win7 daily at work. I will look at the config but I am on holiday for a week.
I also have the VMware code for plan9 from russ. he felt it is not enough time had passed to release it. VMware has changed over the years and the plan9 code needs to be updated. Steve > On 27 Aug 2016, at 05:58, Adriano Verardo <adr.vera...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Skip Tavakkolian wrote: >> from what I've read, it seem like the VMWare workstation should honor the >> old API's. 'aux/vmwarefs -?' might give enough info to run it. >> cifs should also work. in your original post it wasn't obvious that both >> machines are windows; i assumed one was a unix box with no cifs available. > sorry, my mistake >> >> when you run cifs with debug flags on, what does it say when it tries to >> mount the local host? > > > # cifs -d boxA -s xyz -m /n/xyz boxA p9w7 (p9w7 is declared shared in > Win7 and in VMware too) > cifsdial: host=boxA called=boxA sysname=v9Bell > ... and nothing more > > adriano
