Dave: Are you on a domain? If not, are the usernames and passwords the same across the VM, the host system and the file server? I believe before XP prompts for a user name and password, it automatically tries the credentials you've logged on with. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 7:45 AM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] vmware server and accessing shares on a host Hello, I've got vmware server running on an xp professional machine. One of my vm's is also running xp professional, it's in bridged networking mode.
From the vm when i atempt to access the network fileserver as in \\servername i am immediately prompted for authentication credentials and all is good. I've got a share on the host system as \\hostsystem\share for illustrative purposes and i atempt to access it via unc naming as i do with the network fileserver. Unlike the network fileserver access is not prompted for quickly, it takes almost a minute before i am asked for login information. Any additional information needed let me know, any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave.
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