I successfully installed and am running Vmware in my pc on suse 9.1.But the problem is I am unable to access the files of my host computer,ehich i need to do very badly.
Plz help
tia

What OS are you running as Guest?

Do you have Samba server running on Suse (host)?

What sort of VMware networking did you chose when you set up the virtual machine? have you set up fixed IP addresses? If so can you ping from one to the other?

yes,my samba server is running properly on the host.
My guest os is win XP.
when i go to the network places,in the setting of "NAT-used to share ip address" i can see \\.host/Shared Folders in the network connections ,but my share doesnt get displayed there

hope u can help

Okay, please remember that I am working backwards here, WinXP host and Suse 9.0 guest.

Have you added the other machine's users to each machine.

have you disabled WinXP firewall?

Are you using winXP Pro, because I believe that the 'home edition' doesn't have networking properties?

Have you disabled all password authentication in smb.conf, and is password shadow running on the Suse host?

Have you replaced the system share $C on the winXP machine with something like WinXP_C? I aslo find it worthwhile to share a specific folder on the winXP machine - a bit like a /home from Linux.

Since I don't remember when Samba'ing using NAT if one has to use the IP address rather than the hostname when browsing smb://workgroup (or whatever name you have assigned to the workgroup - on both host and guest), you may have to experiment here.

HTH