Hi,
I am trying to mount a share folder from my Vista machine on my ESX 3.5 server but it doesn't work.
I have created a folder on vista and shared it and created a mount point on the ESX server.
From the ESX server I have issued this command:
Mount -t smbfs -o username=username //computer name/share name /vmimages/iso (mount point on esx server).
I always get an error and the error number changes now I got :
Error connecting to 192.168.1.100 (Connection refused)
2061: Connection to computer name failed
SMB connection failed.
The username I put is my administrator user name on my vista machine.
thanks
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Hello,
Do the following command:
esxcfg-firewall -e smbClient
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Edward L. Haletky
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Thanks for the reply.
I have already enabled the SMB client on the ESX server, but still it doesn't work.
I have tried to do the same procedure with another 2 XP machines and I got the same results
Hello,
Use 'smbmount' not 'mount' as smbfs is not understood by mount the way you expect.
Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky
VMware Communities User Moderator
====
Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
SearchVMware Blog: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/
Blue Gears Blogs - http://www.itworld.com/ and http://www.networkworld.com/community/haletky
As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization
Hi,
I was able to solve to problem eventually.
The problem was with the ESX server not resolving the name of the machine so I just put the IP instead of the computer name and it worked.
thanks for the replies