On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 00:55 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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I did not mean for my answer to seem so harsh.

That's all right then.

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started. And yes you can mount an existing partition (not virtual) in a VMware virtual machine but I would not recommend doing so to a partition already mounted by the host system.

Well the VMWare Player runs on Windows XP and Win XP certainly does not mount my SUSE reiserfs partitions. So can I please know the procedure to mount my SUSE reiserfs partitions on the virtual machine -- if I'm not taking too much of your time?

If the virtual machine is running XP you will have to ask someone from a XP mailing list, as far as I know it is not possible. Blame M$ not linux. If wanting to mount a partition from a host system running linux in a virtual machine running linux you need to do that will the virtual machine setup dialog while the VM is not running.

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If you are referring to MS windows style shares you can create shares in linux (using samba) to share with your windows machines and vice-versa.

I am totally ignorant of this kind of "shares", except when long time back I did some small Windows networking at my school when I was "sysadmin".

Then -you- need to do some research on the internet, perhaps http://www.samba.org would be a good place to start. Unless you do some of the work yourself first you will find very few people that will want to keep spoon feeding you. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998