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Hey everybody!

I have vmware workstation installed on my Windows XP machine (host) with a Linux redhat 9 guest.
After installing vmware tools i'm able to access my windows files from the linux guest... but I'm unable to do the opposite!!!! :mad:

I just can't read my files in the Linux virtual machine from the Windows host!!!

How do I solve this problem?? Samba is installed but I'm not sure if correctly. Apparently I can't even connect to my own Linux server! I'm totally confused now! After typing (my workgroup is defined as "myLinux"):

> smbclient //localhost/myLinux -U <myusername>

I get this error message:
Domain=[MYLINUX] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.7a]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

What am I doing wrong??!?!

Help please!!

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It's possible that the problem could be your domain is specified as MyLinux. You probably need to change it so your workgroup is MyLinux in your smb.conf file.

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