[PLUG] VMware Upgrade Kills Network Connectivity

[Rich Shepard]

   I just upgraded VMware Workstation from 4.5.2 to 5.0.0. The guest OS is
still the virtual win98. But, it doesn't see an e:\ drive, the smb share
which is /data2/winstuff on the host machine. I seem to go through this
hassle with every upgrade, but I have no saved e-mail messages with a
solution. And, the VMware help isn't any. There's something on the web site
about smb shares not automagically loaded any more, but I'm running a
'legacy' guest OS so I don't know if that applies.

   The guest OS has both bridged and host-only network connections to the host
machine.

   In the local "explorer" (i.e., file manager), I select the network icon,
then in Tools->Map Network Drive, I try to have it connect \\salmo\\winstuff
to e:\. It won't do it.

   A pointer from those of you who work in a heterogeneous environment would
be very helpful. It's the last step to being able to access my legacy data
files.

TIA,

Rich

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