On 17/01/11 19:08, keithjamieson@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:36:50 +0000 From: cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk
On 17/01/11 16:06, keithjamieson@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Do both have the correct IP addresses AND netmasks? Can they ping each other ? Can you install Wireshark to see if packets are being received by the other machine? Does this install use the PC host as the NAT address, or the virtual machine use a similar IP address? Are there firewalls running on either of the machines?
Before I answer those questions, can I just point out one thing that I mentioned above? One share is working fine. It's when trying to create another that it's failing.
It could be a firewall issue on the host machine. It will allow outgoing connections, but not allow incoming. A simpel test is a ping test may assist in this.
It could be the "NAT thing" which I have had problems with in the past on work machines.
Can you try a pre-rolled small VM, like Puppy ?
Yes I can and have but didn't try multiple shares. I'll give that a go though to check.
That just confused me even more as neither of the 2 previous shares worked. They both declared 'Protocol error' so the finger is pointing at a user error ;-)
I'm writing this under Mandriva. There I can run Windows XP as a guest and despite having multiple shares on the host machine, in XP it will only allow me to have one share to a NAS drive - there are 4 shares to that under Mandriva - so I'm wondering if it's a Windows limitation that's preventing me having two shares to the host machine. I realise that this isn't the place to ask Windows questions so I won't pursue that here.
Sorry I was just trying to help :)
I apologise if you thought I was being anything other than appreciative.
As a by-the-way, I can't say I liked Puppy despite the ROX filer. I didn't like the single click - a la Mac - and nor did I like that everything runs as root. Taking the ROX filer in particular, Risc OS - the original RO - had a three button mouse and had context sensitive menus from the middle button. It certainly didn't have one click so I wasn't off to a good start with that. It may have been the setting from the virtual machine I imported of course as I recall people here recently extolling its virtues.
IMHO, Risc OS had one of the best desktops ever and nothing has come close to that. It was the filer that let it down as it didn't multi-task very well.