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bascule:
I'm running the VMWare Rockbox development environment on my Windows box and I'm wondering if I can access host system resources (specifically my USB-connected Sansa) from within the virtual machine in the same way that I can access the build environment from Windows by browsing '\\debian\user'

GodEater:
It *may* go both ways, but it depends on how the vmware image was set up.

Samba is the server component running in the image, and allows your windows install to act as a client to see files in the image.

To go the other way, you'll need your windows install to be acting as a server (i.e. you need to "Share" your sansa), and the image must include the client side bits of windows networking.

There are a couple of ways this could work - there's something called "smbclient" which works a lot like command line ftp (only over the windows networking code instead), or you can try and "mount" a share on your windows machine into part of the vmware image's file system with something like :


--- Code: ---mount -t cifs ////your_windows_machine's_ip_address//the_share_name /mnt/some_directory_you_create_here_called_sansa_or_somesuch

--- End code ---
That may or may not work though depending on what's installed in the vmimage.

bascule:
OK, thanks, I'll give it a go. It'll probably have to be the mount option, as I need Sansapatcher to see it in order to overwrite the OF bootloader with the RB one.

...and all this because the Win Sansapatcher does not perform 'sansapatcher -bl' correctly...  ::)

GodEater:
Ah - when you mentioned samba I assumed you were talking about sharing files - I'm fairly confident sansapatcher won't work like that sorry :(

bascule:
OK, never mind. Thanks.

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