Problem seeing host XP shared drive in Linux Guest OS

Hi,

I am currently running SUSE 10.1 as a guest OS on Windows XP.

I would like the two machines (real/virtual) to share a folder.

I would just use samba on the Linux side but I am on a specialized domain at work and having some trouble (meaning I'm not smart enough to figure it out).

Is there a way to define a shared drive in XP and have the guest LINUX OS find it? Or is samba from Linux really the best way to go?

Any and/or all help would be appreicated!

I apologize if this is somewhere blatant, I did multiple searches before starting this thread.

Thanks!

 

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It should only require having "something" shared in XP, and then connecting using samba.

You should be able to have an entry in /etc/samba/smbfstab (read smb-f-stab) to make the connection automatically on startup.
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