On Wednesday 10 December 2003 4:00 pm, N. B. Day wrote: > It looks like you have this setup: > > A dual-boot with Win98 and Linux > A VMware installation of Win98 *inside of Linux* > > You can network between the VMware Guest OS Win98 and Linux if you (1) > accepted the defaults at installation and (2) have samba properly set up > in Linux with a public share. > > Since the dual-boot, i.e. raw, installed on a *real* hard disk > partition version of Win98 isn't running, I don't see how you can > communicate with it with the VMware version. *This OS is not running!* > If you want to share data, move the raw Win98 data into the samba > public share, or make its data area public with samba (bad idea). > > Why are you running crap like Win98 anyway? If you *have* to run > Windows, Win2K or WinXP will be *much* more stable with VMware. > > The default smb.conf that comes with any recent Mandrake needs to be > edited only to define the machine workgroup and netbios names and to > uncomment the stuff about public shares (you obviously have to supply > the fully qualified path to it). It works right out of the box. Edit > smb.conf, stop the daemons with "samba stop", run testparm to see if > you've made any terrible errors, "samba start" and you're good to go. > If you're running Shorewall, open 137-139/tcp and /udp. The easy way > to do this is with the Control Center | Firewall | Advanced. > > As always with samba, it's easier if you have identical usernames and > passwords on both the Win and Linux sides. > > My sound (AC'97 on an Epox board) didn't need any configuration at all > in VMware (other than to get rid of the Microsoft Sound at boot-up).
I'm having a problem. I configured the smb.conf properly ... I think, and I can't get it working properly in Win98. I tried running the Direct Cable Access Network Communicator and got R-and-E viewing in Network Neighbourhood. When I click on it it asks for a password, but I didn't set any password up at all. I tried some of my system passwords but no luck. What on earth is going on?
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