[email protected] said: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:40:45PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > When I remove fred from the network, fred forgets who he is, > > and smb will no longer connect. Bad configuration, the > > "windows shares" point at fred when I would prefer they > > point at localhost. > > And you cannot define fred in /etc/hosts because? >
Because it's a Windows VM? Seriously, that's not the problem or solution, either. Keith's problem is the networking arrangement between the host machine and the Windows guest OS. He's using the host's external interface to access samba, and that interface gets deconfigured when it's removed from the network. To do what you suggest he'd have to also assign a static IP address to the host machine external interface, which he doesn't want to do (trust me). Ideally Keith should use the host filesystem sharing built into VMWare. Then the shares will just be there, all the time. But VMWare Tools may not support Win2000 anymore. Keith, if you want to continue using samba you should be using the virtual interface VMWare sets up between the two systems. How do you have that defined? NAT? Bridged? What do you get from 'netstat -nr' on each system when it's running? john- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
