Saturday, June 18, 2011

Connecting to samba share from windows guest on KVM

  1. Install samba server. I will not explain this here as it depends on your linux distribution.
  2. Configure it: cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
    [WorkShare]
    comment = Host Share
    path = /home/mansour/work/
    valid users = mansour
    public = yes
    writable = yes
    printable = no
  3. Now we need add "mansour" to samba users. If you don't this, you wont be able to login to the share!
    smbpasswd -a mansour
  4. start your KVM :
    kvm -m 2G -vga std -smp 2 -net nic,vlan=1 -net user,vlan=1 my-window-xp-pro.im
  5. From window Start --> Run : \\10.0.2.2\WorkShare
    enter the username and password, and you should be able to view the files in your share.

For reference: Use Windows XP on Gentoo Linux with KVM

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