On 17/01/11 16:06, keithjamieson@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I'm trying to persuade a Virtual Ubuntu installation to talk to a Windows 7 host.
What's frustrating is that one share works but another doesn't and I can't see why, other than the 'Protocol error' which is displayed.
Is there somewhere on the virtual machine where this stuff is logged so that I can perhaps see what's going wrong?
Only in the syslog of the virtual machine. I dont think there are anything in the VM "program" to help. But I'll probably be proved wrong in the next post!
I've looked in the syslog but that doesn't show any networky-type errors.
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.
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.
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.