From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <57C0F169.9090900@gmail.com> <57C11083.5060004@gmail.com> <57C11DF1.3060504@gmail.com> From: Steve Simon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <57C11DF1.3060504@gmail.com> Message-Id: Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 08:15:11 +0100 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders Topicbox-Message-UUID: 98eb10ca-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 have you done the hack to the registry described in the code manual page. Microsoft keep moving the goalposts and my memory fades, but I use cifs to w= in7 daily at work. I will look at the config but I am on holiday for a week.= I also have the VMware code for plan9 from russ. he felt it is not enough ti= me had passed to release it. VMware has changed over the years and the plan9= code needs to be updated. Steve > On 27 Aug 2016, at 05:58, Adriano Verardo wrote: >=20 > 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 m= achines are windows; i assumed one was a unix box with no cifs available. > sorry, my mistake >>=20 >> when you run cifs with debug flags on, what does it say when it tries to m= ount the local host? >=20 >=20 > # cifs -d boxA -s xyz -m /n/xyz boxA p9w7 (p9w7 is declared shared in W= in7 and in VMware too) > cifsdial: host=3DboxA called=3DboxA sysname=3Dv9Bell > ... and nothing more >=20 > adriano