I am unclear what settings within windows 2000 i should be inputting. I had a look at the smb.conf file vmware manages and it has entries like:
lsof -i: vmware-nm 1486 root 7u IPv4 1710 UDP 172.16.61.1:netbios-ns vmware-nm 1486 root 8u IPv4 1715 UDP 172.16.61.1:netbios-dgm vmware-sm 1488 root 5u IPv4 1722 TCP 172.16.61.1:netbios-ssn (LISTEN) Is this suppose the IP I put in during the windows networking option under LAN? I include the smb.conf file from vmware: It looks like I have to enable the hosts allow line? Since it seems to be commented out? -walter ps. Anyone who has windows 2000 network working within vmware with a host-only configuration please enlighten me. I keep getting an error message from the windows configuration tool about an incorrect mask. ; ; Configuration file for Samba 2.0.6 vmware-[sn]mbd operating on vmnet1. ; ; This file was automatically generated by the VMware configuration program. ; If you modify it, it will be backed up the next time you run the ; configuration program. ; ; Global settings [global] ; ; Identity ; ; Allow several Samba servers on different subnet without conflicts socket address = 172.16.61.1 interfaces = 172.16.61.0/255.255.255.0 bind interfaces only = yes ; Workgroup the host belongs to workgroup = WORKGROUP ; SMB name of the host (the hostname by default) ; netbios name = ; Description of the host server string = VMware host ; ; Access ; ; Allow connections from ; Beware: if we use this directive, smbd will try to do a reverse resolution ; of the guest IP. If the host is disconnected from the network and uses ; named, that reverse resolution will take a long time, and the smb client ; (the guest) will give up waiting for a smb reply before the reverse ; resolution timeout occurs :( ; Because it doesn't add any real security, we don't use this --hpreg ; hosts allow = 172.16.61.0/255.255.255.0 ; Authentication scheme security = user encrypt passwords = yes ; ; Options ; ; Automatically load the printer list (from /etc/printcap by default) load printers = yes ; Gives better performance socket options = TCP_NODELAY ; VMware extension to use a different shared memory access key on each ; Samba server running on this host sysv shm key = /dev/vmnet1 ; ; Files and directories ; ; Debug log for _both_ daemons ; log file = /etc/vmware/vmnet1/smb/var/log.smb ; log level = 1 ; Max log size in KB ; max log size = 50 ; Locks lock directory = /etc/vmware/vmnet1/smb/var/locks ; SMB passwords smb passwd file = /etc/vmware/vmnet1/smb/private/smbpasswd ; VMware extension to use codepages in a different directory codepage dir = /usr/local/lib/vmware/smb/codepages ; ; Name browsing ; ; Allow the host to participate in master browser elections local master = yes ; Force a local browser election upon startup ; We need that otherwise it takes a long time before the windows network is ; browsable preferred master = yes ; Do not try to resolve SMB names via DNS dns proxy = no ; ; Shared resources ; ; Home directories [homes] comment = Home directories browseable = no writable = yes ; Printers [printers] comment = All printers path = /var/lpd browseable = no guest ok = no writable = no printable = yes [HostFS] comment = VMware host filesystem path = / public = no writeable = yes printable = no