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I have dual-boot laptop (winxp and FC3). two partitions for winxp (C: and D: ), D: is vfat file system and mounted to FC3 linux.
2. Under Linux, partition D is mounted to linux.
3. A vmware workstation 4.5.2 on linux host, with a winxp guest.
I have vmware (workstation 4.5.2) on linux host and with a winxp guest. I want to access the host file system either via samba or shared folder. I have not made the samba server working (on winxp guest, can't find where to look for the host pc). I tried shared folders, it partially works.
At the winxp guest, I set the mounted D: as one of shared folders for the guest. The D: file system is writable on the linux host, but as one of the shared folders on guest operation system, D: is a read-only on the winxp guest. I tried to change the read-only attribute at the guest, but it quickly reversed back to read-only. I set all shared folders NOT in read-only mode. Other shared folders (linux file system) are all writable. How to make the shared folder writable?
The mount option in fstab for D: is /dev/hda5 /mnt/D vfat users,noauto 0 0
4. seems something to do with mounting D on linux?
After that, I modified the mount option to
/dev/hda5 /mnt/D vfat rw,exec,nodev,sync 0 0
then I was able to write to most of the shared folder D, However, There was a problem when writting to one file (MS Outlook personal folder file for calendar, contacts etc, suncrinised with a iPAQ PAD). It seems that there was a random access to write to this file. some time I can save changes to this file, some time can't, it showed access denied. This is same if i modify the mount option as
/dev/hda5 /mnt/D vfat defaults 0 0
Any idea? Thanks
Yuandan
