I've been following the thread Merlin started about not being able to ping between his boxes. I've not broken anything, but I still can't ping. This is a single portable computer with Mandrake 9.1 host and VMWare Workstation 3.2 guest win98se VM. Both agree that the guest is 192.168.72.128 and that the host is 192.168.72.1. But neither can ping the other.
I'm only interested in sharing files between the two systems. I am not interested in accessing the web with the win98se VM. This portable computer is not connected to a real network. It has a real ethernet0 (vmnet0); VMWare created ethernet1 (vmnet1) and ethernet8 (vmnet8). I don't know enough about networks, vmware, samba or linux to know what of all the information I've gathered you need, so if you can ask me questions, I'll be glad to give you what I have. I do have one actually specific question: I reran vmware-config.pl and it said to make certain that smb.conf contained a "socket address" line which said my real IP address. I didn't see a "socket address" line in the smb.conf to modify. However, testparm showed "socket address" equal to "0.0.0.0" which is incorrect. Can I add a line anywhere to smb.conf as follows? socket address = 192.168.72.1 Well, okay, another specific question. After I modify smb.conf, how do I get the changes to "take"? So far, I've had to restart my computer. Is there an easier way? Thanks, deedee -- Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005
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