I am trying to mount a share folder from my Vista machine on my ESX 3.5 server but it doesn’t work

[the_dud]

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

[RDPetruska]

Thread moved to VI:ESX 3.5 forum.

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Do the following command:

esxcfg-firewall -e smbClient

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[the_dud]

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

[Texiwill]

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

[the_dud]

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