VMWare Player may be a solution to the editor crashing

[Holy_Diver]

^Crap, your VM is asking me for a password to login!

Users are Owner and Staff. Now I will see if this has been addressed already...

But before I started logged in???


PS: This is probably because I changed the computer's name/workgroup. Still I'll need a password it seems~

[dmpdesign]

Use Owner/Owner . ‎  Sorry I forgot to mention that!

[Holy_Diver]

Make sure you edit that in towards the top of the thread

[Holy_Diver]

What should we do about this "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" business??

I went ahead and installed it, but I hope this can't get you in trouble with your employer (wasn't really thinking about that when I hit the proceed button)

[Holy_Diver]

How are you networking your SOM install? I think I will use VMware for editing, but I'd still rather my install be on my host harddrive so I don't have to manage the VM's hdd capacity.

I had to reinstall the player for some reason to get the networking to work. But the only way I can think to try to make the SOM install believe it's on the VM is to use NTFS Junction Points (https://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524) to map the network mapped shared folder ...and hope everything works out (registry might be another hurdle)

I think Vista will let you map a network folder to an arbitrary folder, but with XP I can only seem to find options to map it to a drive volume.

Am I missing something obvious??

[Holy_Diver]

Btw, if you intend to work with NTFS "reparse points", despite that article's saying so, linkd is no longer in the 2000 Resource Kit. I found it in the 2003 Kit however:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta...laylang=en

[Holy_Diver]

Crap, I can't even get this^ to work. Apparently the reparse points don't seem to work across filesystems?? And the mounvol command won't recognize a network mapped drive as a real drive (for mounting)

So I'm totally lost on host to make this work, other than hand tweaking the registry and trying to run out of the shared folder?? How are you guys doing this

I feel like such a retard in this dept. But then Windows is always making me feel stupid.

I'll await your answer

[dmpdesign]

lol all i did was this...i installed SOM on the vmware hard drive...(just so it told the registry the program was installed)

then i mapped a network drive to my regular hard drive, call it drive Y: or whatever.

I then browsed drive Y for the som.exe and created a shortcut on the desktop of my VM session. ‎  I launch it straight from there.

Alternatively you could just launch the "local" som.exe on the vmware, just make sure if you go that way that you update your SOM files to match what is on the Y drive's SOM files else you may be missing some parts.

Next part of course is just mapping the .som project file to wherever it resides on the Y drive. ‎ 

Thats all I did, it should work ‎ 

[Holy_Diver]

According to your description, I'm not sure your installation would be working correctly. Was the drive you installed to Y? Then you deleted Y, and replaced it with a network mapped drive?

[dmpdesign]

nah i installed SOM locally on the virtual C drive. ‎  Then mapped Y and ran it from there.