From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adriano Verardo To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: <57C0F169.9090900@gmail.com> <57C11083.5060004@gmail.com> Message-ID: <57C11DF1.3060504@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 06:58:25 +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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders Topicbox-Message-UUID: 98d12098-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > from what I've read, it seem like the VMWare workstation should honor > the old API's. 'aux/vmwarefs -?' might give enough info to run it. > cifs should also work. in your original post it wasn't obvious that > both machines are windows; i assumed one was a unix box with no cifs > available. sorry, my mistake > > when you run cifs with debug flags on, what does it say when it tries > to mount the local host? # cifs -d boxA -s xyz -m /n/xyz boxA p9w7 (p9w7 is declared shared in Win7 and in VMware too) cifsdial: host=boxA called=boxA sysname=v9Bell ... and nothing more adriano