CD with mapped mounted drive on network : CHDIR command

It has happened with me that I was able to succesfully mount a network drive and can freely access it using Windows file-system Explorer. But my script was not able to access it. Digging a step further, i noticed that I could not even CD to that drive on command prompt. Hence i finally wrote this blog post for anyone running into the similar issue.

Question : How do I change to a mapped network drive at the command line?

Issue:
Say, you have a networked drive mapped to "U:\"
Now you want to go to that drive from a command line.
However, when you try you get an error suggesting
C:>u: The system cannot find the drive specified.


Solution:
There are two aspects to the solution:
1. The Syntax to use CD command on Windows may be the cause. Remember that for changing directories you should use cd /d U: rather than just U:
2. You should first start using the map drive on command prompt. Command used to do that is as follows:
net use u:

See attached screenshot showing the error as well as what happened after solution.

C:\Users\mfaiz\Downloads>net use p:
Local name        p:
Remote name       \\sxa.xxx.xxx.com\ap-xxx
Resource type     Disk
The command completed successfully.

GeoBing by Anwar Faiz: First Facebook App using Bing Maps

I have developed a new Facebook Application and wanted to post something about that.

Name of the Facebook App: GeoBing

Description: Use the GeoBing App to share your location on Facebook using Microsoft's Latest Bing Maps. Your Profile would get updated with your current location and map.

Importance: GeoBing Facebook Application is the world's first innovative way to share your Geographical Location over Facebook using Bing Maps. You can even do it from your Laptop and Desktop Browsers.!!

GeoBing FaceBook Link: http://apps.facebook.com/geobing/?ref=ts

Steps to use:

Step 1: Click this button Show map. [You need to click this]

Step 2: When prompted, allow your location to be shared to see Geolocation in action

Step 3: When you see your Location information on the Map below, Click 'Post to Facebook' button on the bottom.

Effect: Your geographical location would be posted over your Facebook profile page.

Help promoting this App. This was designed in curiosity to use Bing Maps. And I am happy and glad to let you all know, GeoBing is the first Facebbok Application that uses Microsoft Bing Maps to post your Geographical location. This works from your desktop, laptops, handheld devises, Samsung Galaxy S2, Iphone, Ipads etc.

Love u all.
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-Mohd Anwar Jamal Faiz

Access copy Share files between Host and guest file system in VMware virtual machine

There is definitely ways to achieve the task. It all depends on the choice of the host machine you are using and the guest OS in the VMware. Just keep in mind the following matrix:

Host	Guest	Tool
Win	Win	windows file sharing
Win	Linux	samba, ssh
linux	win	smbmount
linux	linux	nfs,ftp,telnet

The same above in graphics is

To summarize:
# If Both systems run Windows operating system, you can use Windows file sharing
# If You are connecting from a Linux system to a Windows system, you can use smbmount
# If You are connecting from a Windows system to a Linux system, use Samba
# If Both systems run Linux operating systems, use NFS, FTP and Telnet

For more detailed description you can also visit VMWare official website document on this topic at the following location. Click Here for VMWare Help

In order to share folders between the host operating system and the guest operating system you can use VMWare settings. Go to VM->Settings->options

The same is shown in the adjacent snapshot.
Added notes in July 2012 :-- VMware Workstation 4 Features | Documentation | Knowledge Base | Discussion Forums Prev Contents Last Next Using Shared Folders With shared folders, you can easily share files among virtual machines and the host computer. To use shared folders, you must have the current version of VMware Tools installed in the guest operating system and you must use the Virtual Machine Control Panel to specify which directories are to be shared. You can use shared folders with virtual machines running the following guest operating systems: Windows Server 2003 Windows XP Windows 2000 Windows NT 4.0 Linux with a kernel version of 2.4 or higher To set up one or more shared folders for a virtual machine, be sure the virtual machine is open in Workstation and click its tab to make it the active virtual machine. Go to Edit > Virtual Machine Settings > Options and click Shared folders. You can add one or more directories to the list. Those directories may be on the host computer or they may be network directories accessible from the host computer. In a Windows virtual machine, shared folders appear in My Network Places (Network Neighborhood in a Windows NT virtual machine) under VMware Shared Folders. For example, if you specify the name Test files for one of your shared folders, you can navigate to it by opening My Network Places > VMware Shared Folders > .host > Shared Folders > Test files. You can also go directly to the folder using the UNC path \\.host\Shared Folders\Test files. You can map a shared folder to a drive letter just as you would with a network share. Note: To see shared folders displayed in this way, you must update VMware Tools in the virtual machine to the current version. If your guest operating system has the version of VMware Tools that shipped with VMware Workstation 4.0, shared folders appear as folders on a designated drive letter. In a Linux virtual machine, shared folders appear under /mnt/hgfs. So the shared folder in this example would appear as /mnt/hgfs/Test files.

Vmware and sharing rocks!!