On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 14:56 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I have installed samba in order to be able to exchange files with a > VMWare server, where I have a MS Windows virtual machine. I configured > samba with Webmin and it was working fine yesterday. However, today I > am using a different share directory. Surprisingly, I cannot open that > new share directory (from MS Windows), as I always get the following > message: > > «\\Localhost\mydirectory is not accessible. > The network name cannot be found.» Well, vmware has another focus to share directories, the so-called shared folders. try accessing .\\host\ > Any ideas? Yep. a) try \\ip_number b) try adding your hostname (must be the same hostname) in c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts c) recheck your permissions, firewall settings, and so on. Good luck! -- Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx Netzmanager Padep, GTZ 591-70656800, -22417628, LA PAZ, BOLIVIA http://otbits.blogspot.com -- A hardware failure will cause system software to crash, and the customer engineer will blame the programmer.
