[GLLUG] Mixed windows linux networking shared folders

[Richard Houser]

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L Inbody wrote:
| Thanks for all the help, I had completely forgotten about the how to
| forge website.  I found exactly what I was looking for here:
| http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-home-fileserver
|
| The second part of the email that didn't get sent, does anyone have
| experience with VMWare?  We are having an issue with external USB
| storage devices in the virtual machines on the Dell desktop.  No
| problems on the standard Ubuntu installs on the other computers.  For
| some unknown reason while running Ubuntu as the host OS and Windows as
| the guest, the storage devices are recognized in Ubuntu and even after
| unmounting they do not show up in the VMware server console.

If a Linux driver registers a device, that device is not available for
direct use inside a Virtual machine.  In nearly all cases, this is the
preferred route.  Is there a reason why you don't want Linux to see
these devices and just make them available inside the VM to the Windows
VMs?  I don't think you normally want to do this unless you have some
very strange hardware that you require direct device access to (for
things like firmware flashing, buggy drivers, etc.).


Also, for your earlier portion about the mixed network:

If the goal is to use the Ubuntu machine as a file-server, forget trying
to connect Linux machines to that with Samba and just use NFS on the
Unix side.  Keep using Samba for the Windows side.  Basically, Samba has
embarrased Microsoft many times by being a better Windows file/print
server than even MS provides in the server versions :).
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