[ale] Using VMWare/Samba on a DHCP laptop

[David Corbin]

I had this exact same problem, and got it solved only this week.  The
solution, is to us two virtual ethernet adapters in your VM.  One should be
bridged (as you have it now), and one should be host only. The host-only
network should use one of the "private IP
addresses", and all communication between VMs and host-OS should happen
here.  I posted the details of this configuration to one of the vmware news
groups.  If you have more questions, just let me know.
----- Original Message -----
 From: "Holbrook, Paul" <Paul.Holbrook at turner.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 12:05 PM
Subject: [ale] Using VMWare/Samba on a DHCP laptop


> I've got a laptop that I'm dual-booting RH 6.1 and Win98 on.  I've
installed Win98 under VMWare, and I'm trying to get Samba set up to allow
VMWare to see the other Windows partitions on my laptop.  I've got VMWare
set up in bridged network mode.
>
> Here's my problem: I take the laptop back and forth between home and work,
so I use DHCP rather than a fixed IP address when I boot Redhat.  Normally
to get access to my laptop's Windows partitions from Win98 under VMWare, I
would set up Samba on my laptop under Redhat.  But to bring up those shares
under VMWare/Win98, I have to give a network name of something with a fixed
address - something like file://myhostip/myshare.  But since my laptop
doesn't have a permanent IP adress, I don't have such a fixed address that I
can use in VMWare/Win98.
>
> Worse yet, when I boot Redhat off the network, DHCP isn't available, so I
don't get any IP address, and the extra bridged network interfaces Redhat
normally brings up for VMWare aren't even available (interfaces vmnet0 and
vmnet1).
>
> So, my question: what can I do under under Redhat so that:
>
> a) Win98 under VMWare will have a fixed address to get my local shares
from
>   and
> b) So that when I boot up Redhat offline I can still do my local samba
shares from Win98 under VMWare.
>
> -- Paul Holbrook
> paul.holbrook at turner.com
>
>