From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
References: <57C0F169.9090900@gmail.com> <20160827023152.GA8602@jben.ca>
From: Adriano Verardo <adr.verardo@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <57C10C81.4070604@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 05:44:01 +0200
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
	SeaMonkey/2.40
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <20160827023152.GA8602@jben.ca>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 98c25810-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

Jadon Bennett wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 03:48:25AM +0200, Adriano Verardo wrote:
>> Currently I send files from Plan9/VMware to a remote Win7 box using cifs.
>> I would like to store directly on the local box.
> I don't know much about VMWare, but are you able to run samba or similar
> on your host machine, and use cifs with that instead of the Windows box?
>
>
Now I have 2 boxes.
A is a Win7 that runs VMware. Plan9 runs in the VMware VM.
B is a Win7 I use to store Plan9 files through cifs.
My goal is to do all the job on A because sometimes I've no net to
connect to.

I tried to cifs a "normal" shared folder of A from Plan9, say as if
Plan9 were on another box.
I think it should be possible, but I'm not sure and in any case I could
not make it work.

Reading the VMware doc I see that's possible to define shared folders
"in the VM" and
on internet there are examples on how to access them from a Linux
running in the VM.

So I configured a VM shared folder X and looked in /mnt /n /srv hoping
to find a reference
to X.

adriano