Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-08 Thread Dan Brown
From: Richard Salts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Pardon me, but what is samba? Is it a program? Yes, it's a program that lets Linux boxes show up in the "network neighborhood" on Windoze boxes, and otherwise participate in Microsoft networks.

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-08 Thread Richard Salts
Pardon me, but what is samba? Is it a program? At 10:50 AM 7/8/99 -0700, you wrote: >"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: > >> Can Win98 (or WinNT) inside the vm access anything on the Linux partition, >> or is it locked in? Alternately, can the Linux OS run samba and let the >> windows vm mount the s

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-08 Thread Ripcrd6
Dan, we just discussed this issue in my local LUG. You may or should be able to telnet in to the NT session running in VMware either from another box or from an instance of Linux running on your machine. NT will require Samba to be set up to access a Ext2 file system. Should work just like t

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-08 Thread Dan Brown
"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote: > Can Win98 (or WinNT) inside the vm access anything on the Linux partition, > or is it locked in? Alternately, can the Linux OS run samba and let the > windows vm mount the samba share? As far as Windoze in the VM is concerned, the Linux machine does not ex

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-08 Thread Manny Styles
- Original Message - From: Dan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare > Manny Styles wrote: > > > Do you know how they got VMWare to use the existing installation o

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-08 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
At 01:26 PM 7/8/99 -0400, you wrote: >> Do you know how they got VMWare to use the existing installation of NT? I'd >> like to do the same with Win98. > >You use the "raw disk" option to use an alreadt-install OS. I have used this >with Win98 and it works fine and does not corrupt the regular Wi

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-08 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Manny Styles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 4:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare > > - Original Message - > From: Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL P

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-08 Thread Dan Brown
Manny Styles wrote: > Do you know how they got VMWare to use the existing installation of NT? I'd > like to do the same with Win98. It's do-able, as long as your Win98 installation is on an IDE drive (last I heard, it wouldn't work with SCSI partitions). -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PR

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator - VMWare

1999-07-07 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Thomas J. Hamman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator > newer games and larger Win95 programs to work reliably. And vmware is a > commercial program (Dosemu

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator

1999-07-05 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Axalon wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > > As for Diablo, well, I guess you'll have to boot to Windows whenever you want > > to play, and back to Linux when you're done. > > I play this under wine all the time. ;) specify a single resolution in a > X conf

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator

1999-07-05 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Yants wrote: > > Great! I've got my Mandrake running pretty smoothly. However, there some > > apps which aren't readily available to Linux, like MS-Office, Photoshop, > > Diablo,etc. Is there a way to load Windows/Dos applicatio

Re: [newbie] Win/DOS Emulator

1999-07-05 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Yants wrote: > Great! I've got my Mandrake running pretty smoothly. However, there some > apps which aren't readily available to Linux, like MS-Office, Photoshop, > Diablo,etc. Is there a way to load Windows/Dos applications on linux. I've > heard people talk about Dosemu, WIN

[newbie] Win/DOS Emulator

1999-07-05 Thread Yants
Great! I've got my Mandrake running pretty smoothly. However, there some apps which aren't readily available to Linux, like MS-Office, Photoshop, Diablo,etc. Is there a way to load Windows/Dos applications on linux. I've heard people talk about Dosemu, WINE, VMWare, but these sound like more crypt