Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 07 March 2004 04:05 am, Tim Hanson wrote:
> Actually, the networking is "host only."  NAT uses the host's ip to
> access the outside.  "Bridged" uses a fake nic to access the outside
> with its own ip.  "Host only" is the only method which uses Samba to
> access the host's file system, through a second fake nic.  It has always
> worked before (previous SuSE versions).  

Not really true....    bridged will talk from the windows machine (running in 
VMware) over to the host linux machine samba (if there is one running)

I've always preferred to have a linux samba running and use bridged networking 
because any other windows machine on the network (as well as the vmware 
guests) then have access to all other machines.  In short, every machine, 
virtual or not, has access to every other machine.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx  Bellaire, MI         03/07/04 12:09  +
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