Red HAt Linux ..

jackdaw

Hi

I have VMWare on my Windows XP machine and have RED HAT LINUX running on it (so it's the VM)

its running GNOME desktop ... I have shared folders on the XP machine ,
how can i access these folders through the Linux VM ?

is it as simple as giving the IP of the XP machine when opening a location ?

or will i need to use SAMBA ?

ressem

The samba client package SMBclient installed on the redhat box would be one way of doing this.

This may be integrated into the file manager.
But in some versions of Redhat it needed tweaking to work.

The console command smbmount can be used. Presumably you'll be using this a lot so to permanently connect the share you can add a line similar to the one described in the following link to your fstab file.

//windowsservernameorip/sharename /mountdirectoryonlinuxbox smbfs username=windowsusername,password=windowspassword 0 0

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Filesystems/Mounting_smbfs_Shares_Permanently.html

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If you want to connect in the opposite direction from the windows box to the redhat box, the free program winscp from http://winscp.net/eng/index.php is probably the easiest approach.
Use the file protocol SCP, which connects over SSH which should be already active on the linux box.

ntlbell

depending on the version of vmware you don't need samba

you can setup the share folders within vmware setup and they will show up in the rh vm

shows up in something like /mnt/hgfs

you might need to have vmware tools installed also