Centos / VMWare wont let me upload things

Dear readers,

I followed Chumpy's guide (which is awesome!!!!) but after installing and starting up my server I want to get the client patch out of the client map.

The problem is that when ever I try to email it to someone or just upload it on the internet my upload halts on 10%.

No matter what website I try to upload my files.
I can download things no problem, just uploading things is giving me problems. Even hotmail wont let me upload things.

It dusnt matter if the file is 200kb or 4MB it just goes to 5~10 percent and then halts. Wont do anything more.

Is there some configuration wrong or something?

I am using Windows XP 64-Bit myself. Then I am running VMWare with CentOS version 5 on it.

I hope someone can help me out on this problem, since this is the only thing (I think and hope lol) between me and logging on to my own server haha.

Best regards,


R3b0rN

I think something wrong with your computer.

My computer? any idea what?
VMWare is on my network so should be all fine.

But another strange thing is:

I can look in microsoft_network area on centos. I see my computer but cant connect to it (shared maps)... oh well. No worries on that part, I just have to be able to upload stuff using VMWare.

Can someone help me out please?

You won't be able to connect to your windows pc over the network unless centos is specifically set up for it. Linux uses samba for shares not Microsoft.

It sounds like the connection between windows and centos isn't that stable. Depending on your setup you are either bridging a physical network device to a virtual one or NAT-ing and neither is going to be truly stable on every type of hardware, if some are a bit flakey it doesn't really surprise me to be honest. I would definitely try updating the drivers for your network card as XP 64 bit is not very widely used and it wouldn't be a great stretch of the imagination to think the drivers aren't quite as well tested.

Personally i use winscp (free from http://winscp.net/eng/index.php) for copying files to and from centos.

Samba can be a total pain to set up for people new to linux but it's one possible option and you could connect to the centos samba share from windows.
http://crazytoon.com/2007/05/22/samb...centos-fedora/

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Originally Posted by chumpywumpy

You won't be able to connect to your windows pc over the network unless centos is specifically set up for it. Linux uses samba for shares not Microsoft.

It sounds like the connection between windows and centos isn't that stable. Depending on your setup you are either bridging a physical network device to a virtual one or NAT-ing and neither is going to be truly stable on every type of hardware, if some are a bit flakey it doesn't really surprise me to be honest. I would definitely try updating the drivers for your network card as XP 64 bit is not very widely used and it wouldn't be a great stretch of the imagination to think the drivers aren't quite as well tested.

Personally i use winscp (free from http://winscp.net/eng/index.php) for copying files to and from centos.

Samba can be a total pain to set up for people new to linux but it's one possible option and you could connect to the centos samba share from windows.
http://crazytoon.com/2007/05/22/samb...centos-fedora/

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I used WinSCP and it will let me connect indeed. But when I try to upload / download stuff it wont let me.

It SOMETIMES gets a couple of bytes, but never the whole fail.
Same as the internet it will stall after a couple of seconds.

So something, somewhere, is not stable enough or what so ever.

I just cant seem to find out what.

And when I use Microsoft Virtual PC instead of VMWare CentOS will crash all the time lol. Anyways, even with WinSCP I cannot connect.

no one any idea so far? :'(

Centos definitely works in MS virtual PC as i have used it a lot myself (and it's very slow compared to vmware). I'm currently experimenting with virtualbox which might be an option.

I have not heard any other reports of this type of problem so it is something unique to your setup. The only thing i can think of is upgrading the network card driver.

Do you use vmware 1 or 2? It might be worth trying 2 if you are not already. I don't like it becase it uses more resources but it is newer.