Re: Mounting directories in VMware

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:40:07 -0400, John-Paul Stewart wrote:

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
Is there a way to mount a Linux directory in VMware besides SAMBA? I
have Win2K running under VMware Server on FC6. The original Win4Lin and
Parallels both have a means of mapping Linux directories into Windows
as Windows disks. Does VMware have a similar mechanism? I would prefer
not to run SAMBA on my network.

In VMware Workstation you can share a directory between host and guest
by configuring the "Shared Folders" option for each guest.

In a quick search I don't see a similar feature for VMware Server. But
"Shared Folders" are what they call it in Workstation so searching for
those keywords might turn up something for Server.

It looks like it's a Workstation only feature, maybe that's their way of
differentiating the free product from the paid for product.
.

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