On Friday 28 March 2003 09:55, Martin Polley wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying out VMWare to run Win2K inside Gentoo, but I cannot seem
> to get host-only networking to work.
>
> I am running Samba (not the one installed with VMWare), and the only
> time I can get the host to appear in the guest OS is when I specify
>
>
> netbios name = gentoo
>
>
> in smb.conf. (The actual host name is NOT gentoo, but when I use
> "localhost", I get nothing,)
>
> But Win2K tells me that "Gentoo" is not accessible...
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
>
> TIA,
>
> Martin Polley
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I think you are doing it the hard way.
Why don't you use Samba installed with VMWare? You have VMWare
installed, right? Take a look at
/opt/vmware/lib/help/networking_host_samba.htm
Cheers
Francesco.
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