[PLUG] VMware Upgrade Kills Network Connectivity

[Robert Kopp]

--- Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>    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.
> 
Win4Lin isn't considered as elegant, but maybe it
doesn't have this problem. (In general, I don't do
this: I use multiboot when Windows functionality is required.)

Robert "Tim" Kopp
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