Boot an existing XP (Physical HD) install with VMWare

[dbsoundman]

I'm actually halfway there; I figured out how to get my /home folder shared via samba, so that's all set. I just need to figure out what I need to put in the Windows "add network place" thing to get the shared folder on there. I'm not exactly sure what the folder's address should be.

-Dan

[dbsoundman]

OK, I still can't get the windows network connection thing down. I go My Network Places>Tools>Map Network Drive, and I put in \\<my ip address>\dan (which is my shared folder), and it prompts me for a username and password. I'm not quite sure what I should be putting here, but the only user on my laptop is "dan", so I enter dan and my password, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Dan

[dbsoundman]

I figured it out! I was thinking it was some sort of password/username issue. I did some searching, and found this solution:

sudo smbpasswd -a 'username'

Then, enter a password for your username. Go back to windows, map the drive with \\<your ip address>\<share>, then the username is just your username and whatever password you entered for that command. Easy! Now I have a Z:\ drive in Windows and life is good.

-Dan

[anthill27]

Does anyone know if this works with RAID. I'm dual boot Ubuntu 8.04.1 and XP on two 500GB HDD in RAID 0.

It's set up like this using dmraid,
/dev/mapper/isw_chijicei_ge = RAID name (used dmraid for ubuntu)
/dev/mapper/isw_chijicei_ge1 = 906GB Ubuntu
/dev/mapper/isw_chijicei_ge2 = 4GB SWAP
/dev/mapper/isw_chijicei_ge3 = 90GB Windows XP

I have VMware Workstation installed.
Can i reference the XP partition?