VMware Workstation 3.0 for Linux: Problems with Umlauts in Host-only Networking
Support knowledgebase (fhassel_vmware_charset)
Applies to
VMware Workstation: Version 3.0
Symptom
You have installed Windows as guest operating system. When you try to access files on your
host operating system (SuSE Linux) via host-only networking (SuSE Linux),
umlauts (two dots placed over vowels) are not properly displayed.
Cause
The default configuration of VMware's virtual Samba server character set does not support umlauts.
Solution
Please edit the template for the Samba configuration under VMware by means of an editor
of your choice. This file can be found under
/usr/lib/vmware/configurator/vmnet-smb.conf
Insert the following two lines in the section [global]
:
character set = ISO8859-1
client code page = 850
Then save the file and restart
vmware-config.pl
in order to apply the changes.
Keywords: VMWARE, UMLAUTS, CHARSET, CHARACTER, SET, CHARACTERSET, HOST, ONLY, NETWORKING, SAMBA
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