VMware Workstation 3.0 for Linux: Problems with Umlauts in Host-only Networking

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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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