vmware shared folder mounting problem

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: vmware shared folder mounting problem
started by: mazter

Posted by mazter on Nov. 29 2003,11:55

hi everybody

i am using dsl in vmware, and very glad to use it. but i am using winxp as host os. and i have troubles when i want to share my files with dsl,that is,i am using dial up in windows part and download some tar files and want to extract in dsl but i cannot transfer it directly.i enabled shared folder setting in vmware but i dont know how to mount that partition to dsl, do u have any idea?
thanx in advance

Posted by boxr80 on Oct. 14 2006,04:31

Quote (mazter @ Nov. 29 2003,06:55)

i am using dsl in vmware, and very glad to use it. but i am using winxp as host os. and i have troubles when i want to share my files with dsl,...

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I was in the same boat. My XP is in a stand-alone workgroup, and all the users are local -- no domain accounts to muddy things up. I can't get VMWare Tools to load; nothing happens in the DSL guest and the WinXP VMWare pulldown changes from, "Install VMWare Tools..." to, "Cancel VMWare Tools Install...". That's all. Can't get access to the shared folder that's defined in the VM settings without VMWare Tools.

So to get the data, I resorted to using SMB to access a share. In order to get SMB to connect to the share, I had to change the following items:
First, to get round the original "logon failure" message I went into the Management Console's Local Computer Policy and changed this:
Local Computer Policy
\Computer Configuration
\Windows Settings
\Security Settings
\Local Policies
\Security Options
\Network Access: Sharing and security model for local accounts

What a mouthful! This item was set to, "Guest only -- local users authenticate as Guest". The other option is, "Classic -- local users authenticate as themselves" and that's the value this item has to have, reason being, when you try to connect from DSL into WinXP, it will translate this into an attempt by Guest to access the share and it'll be denied every time.

Once past that I ran into a resource issue in XP Lan Manager. So the second thing to change is the following registry entry:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters
\IRPStacksize

This is a REG_DWORD that has a default value of 11 and a possible range of from 11 to 20. I reset it to 20. Note that in W2K the parameter isn't defined so you'll have to add it.

THIS IS REGISTRY EDITING SO YOUR FATE IS IN YOUR TWO TYPING FINGERS.

With these changes I can now connect SMB to a NET SHAREd folder off XP and get/put files to it. The connect command is

smbclient //winxp-ip/sharename -U authorizeduser -W localcomputername -n localcomputername

It'll ask for a password and you should be able to connect.

If you know how to get VMWare Tools to load into DSL V3.0.1 (current at this time) please let me know.

If the above fixes are documented elsewhere my apologies for not finding them in the several hours I spent looking.

Schuss!

BOXR80