Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:19, Scott Naylor wrote: I know I can use Samba to have my VMWin98 communicate with my installed Win98. The problem is I have no idea how to set up Samba so this works! Can someone please give me some help? PS. Sound is all buggy in VMWare. Anyway to fix this? 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). -- N. B. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department, University of New Orleans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 4:00 pm, N. B. Day wrote: 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). Ok lots of info. I HAVE to run 98 unfortunately. I have an older computer and I can't get anything new until a new computer comes and still I will be stuck with 98 on my Linux computer. Well if I can communicate with Linux that's good enough because all I want is the data on the /mnt/win_c/ which will allow me to communicate with my other Win98. I have a funny little problem with my sound card. It can't seem to run Linux sound and VMWare sound at the same time so I have to run Doom Legacy to disable Linux sound for a minute or two and then run VMWare. Very wierd... I wish there was a Samba setting in MDK Control Centre oh well I'll give it a try. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba
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? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba
I have an update on the problem. Now when I try to access R-and-E in Windows I get a dialog that says: R-and-E is not accessible No permission for resource I think I might just need to run VMWare as root... sounds like a plan I suppose. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 22:19:00 + Scott Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I can use Samba to have my VMWin98 communicate with my installed Win98. The problem is I have no idea how to set up Samba so this works! Can someone please give me some help? PS. Sound is all buggy in VMWare. Anyway to fix this? How much memory do you have? Two of my VMware installs were clunky until I added memory over 500m. Sound and speed then went up to normal. I'm using VMware with 3 boxes in the office and my laptop. Very satisfactory to wean everyone off of win2k. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMware and Samba Passwords -possibly a bit OT
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 19:21, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Having a bit of trouble with file sharing on the windows 98 guest on VMware. Although the passwords for windows login and Samba are the snipped I prefer to NOT use the VMWare Samba - so that the guest is actually part of the real network. Making sure that Samba is setup correctly is another issue; the settings in Samba can be very cryptic, so the actual share you want to access has to be setup properly in order to have workgroup access. You might want to use SWAT via Webmin to setup your Samba server and help to synchronise the users/passwords - much better than doing it from the term...and more intuitive if you care to use that phrase... Managed to get it working - I needed to create an object in the Windows registry that recognised unencripted passwords. All done now. I don't reckon I'll mess with the regular Samba at this time. Maybe if I ever have to network a second box I'll have a go. Cheers. -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMware and Samba Passwords -possibly a bit OT
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 19:21, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Having a bit of trouble with file sharing on the windows 98 guest on VMware. Although the passwords for windows login and Samba are the same, whenever I try to connect to the Linux host using Network Neighbourhood, I am informed that my password is incorrect. Don't know how many VMware users there are amongst you but if there are any that know how to deal with this problem, I'd appreciate some pointers. I've wasted a week's holiday trying to tweak this and R'ing all TFMs and I'm getting nowhere very slowly. If it matters, I'm using Mandrake 9.0 and VMware 3.2 with the built-in Samba running Windows 98 as guest. I've tried setting password level to 8, and using unencrypted passwords (although I might be doing that wrong). Please advise or point me at a useful source, life is passing me by while I'm bogged down in this. Cheers I prefer to NOT use the VMWare Samba - so that the guest is actually part of the real network. Making sure that Samba is setup correctly is another issue; the settings in Samba can be very cryptic, so the actual share you want to access has to be setup properly in order to have workgroup access. You might want to use SWAT via Webmin to setup your Samba server and help to synchronise the users/passwords - much better than doing it from the term...and more intuitive if you care to use that phrase... -- Sat Aug 2 10:20:00 EST 2003 10:20:00 up 1 day, 17:22, 1 user, load average: 1.28, 1.13, 0.99 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo. -- George Bernard Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
