On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 00:07, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > - what is the guest OS, BTW? > > Win98 for the girlfriend. > > Andrew
OK, so being that you can't replace the girlfriend with a linux girlfriend, I'd tend to reckon that you need to make ABSOLUTELY sure you have Samba setup on the host box with the right workgroup/domain name, and set to share whatever shares you want (Use Webmin/SWAT to setup Samba - so so so much easier); afterwards, make sure you have the Win98 guest OS setup to obtain by DHCP, use the same workgroup/domain settings you just mucked with in linux, set TCP/IP as the default protocol, add the linux box to the C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS file for further solidity, set the "sharing" in Win98 to be turned on, and the "virtual ethernet card" to 10mbps - full duplex (as that's all it's capable of dealing with); and restart the VM...you should be able to not only share the internet connection, but have visible shares of the linux host to the Win98 guest... Sounds all "rocket-science" and the likes, but in reality it's fairly simple. I use VMWare for XP-Pro in a Windows - not that I use it even much anymore - been over a month since I fired it up...but it does work nicely. I found as well, that by putting the virtual machine on a different physical drive than that of the OS that I get better performance - as well, after tweaking/tuning the HD params you get some really good performance - moreso than an actual installation of Win98. You can also setup a second virtual HD for the Win98 guest - nice place to put the \TEMP, the Win98 swap and the IE's temporary internet files...just to improve performance a tad bit more... HTH! Cheers! -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 08:20:00 +1100 8:20am up 21:24, 4 users, load average: 0.79, 0.41, 0.33 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | |----------------------------------------------------------------| | linux user:267497 * RH 7.3/8.1 * Mandrake 9.1 * Microsoft Free | | PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Web/Graphics/Consulting | ------------------------------------------------------------------ egrep patterns are full regular expressions; it uses a fast deterministic algorithm that sometimes needs exponential space. -- unix manuals
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