is there a howto on how i wold go about setting up samba to do that, ive never used it before ever, and an install on the regular partition would be a complete reinstal. Also ive narrowed my parport problem to permissions, they are ...

crw-rw-rw-    1 bob      users     99,   0 Jul 22 15:04 parport0

and when i bootup vmware it says it cant open parport0 permission denied.

and lastly i have tried gnutella and it just is not as good as kazaa, at least not for me, i can never download from hosts and when i can i get ungodly slow speeds.

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:09:28 -0400
"George Toft" <george@georgetoft.com> wrote:

> robert jorgenson wrote:
> > 
> > Okay i just setup VMware and it works great i think i can finally remove my windows partition :) A few problems though, i cant figure out how to get my parallel zip drive to work, ive narrowed it down to vmware not seeing lpt1 ... how can i make it do that? also is it possible to have VMware use a real partition and if i could, could i mount it while vmware is using it? Also i have an 8 gig partition on my disk that i use for mp3's is there a way to have VMware see that partition as an extra drive and write to it and have it mounted in linux so i can play my MP3's? i need it to do that because i use KaZaa to download my mp3's(the spyware free version) and havent been able to get it to work in wine =/ Thanks in advance for any help.
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> VMWare will read your real partition and use it.  At that point you have
> the option to commit any changes to the partition, save them in a temp
> file, or discard them.  Since Windows thinks you just changed out every
> piece of hardware you own, you will go through the "Found New Hardware
> ... reboot" routine from hell.
> 
> As far as LPT1 goes, I battling that myself.
> 
> Regarding your mp3 partition, I see two solutions:
> 1.  Mount it as a new drive in VMWare (Settings | Configuration Editor |
> IDE Drives | P-S Not Installed | Then config the disk partition).
> 2.  Mount it under Linux, and use samba to share it out.  Under VMWare,
> mount the network drive.  I recommend this as you can listen to the
> mp3's under Linux.  Sound is crappy under VMWare.
> 
> I found phex is a very good gnutella client.  It is java-based, open
> source, graphical, and runs under Linux :)
> 
> George
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