I'm running Ubuntu on vmware 5 on a winxp host and am trying to connect from linux to network share on the host computer (windows) with no success
the shared folder is on an NTFS volume
ThanX

Hello,

From windows virtual machine share the folder then:-

You can use it on linux as follows:-

mount -t smbfs //winmachinename/winsharename /mnt/somepoint/


This will ask username /password which you will have to provide mannually. Share will remain mounted untill next reboot.

The automatic and permenant way:-

in /etc/fstab make follwing entries:-

//winmachine/winshare /mnt/windows/c smbfs defaults 1 1


//winmachine/cdrom /mnt/windows/cdrom smbfs username="urusername",password="yourpassword" 1 1

this is so if you have passwords set