Re: [TCLUG:8294] VMware filesystem

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>I'm not sure how I could see this happening.  Would you be sending the
>display output via X?  Wow, what a hack. :)
        well, VMWare just displays in a normal X window; so why couldn't you
throw it across a network? (or just to another display on a multiheaded system).

>  As far as transparent
>mapping, couldn't you tweak out the "My Documents" folder in the
>Windows registry to point to a Samba drive?  (Totally brainstorming
>here.)
        crud, there's a thought. 
        that's really what I wanted to do in the first place. :)
        it's not obvious how to do that under windows; is the problem. (I
can do it with TweakUI; but I can't find the reference in the registry).

>Basically, what you're talking about is creating your own Citrix
>MetaFrame server.  Good luck :)
        something like that. only with a better underlying system. 
        more like a poorman's S/390. ;> ;>

thanks for the registry idea. I think that's what I'll do. have everyone's
'mydocs' (make it a DOS-friendly name) dir point to a SAMBA share on the
office fileserver.

Carl Soderstrom.
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