VMWare Tools must be installed in the guest OS for shared folders to work. Configure the shared folder: Virtual Machine -> Virtual Machine Settings -> Options -> Shared Folders . Click the Add button to add a share. The share maps a host path to a name in the guest. If the guest system is Linux, the shared folder is available under /mnt/hgfs . If the guest system is Windows, the shared folder is available as \\.host\Shared Folders\<share_name>

Bring up the Control Panel system page (shortcut: Win+Pause, Win+Fn+Insert/Pause for laptop): Click "Remote settings" on the left Check "Remote Desktop" -> "Allow connection..."

Bring up the "System Properties" dialog (Start -> My Computer -> Right Click -> select Properties ) Click on the Remote tab. Check the box labeled "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer".

This one is even more weird: it worked on Windows but failed on Linux, using default tools JDK1.6.0_20 on both. The exception thrown was: java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid conversion fro... And the stack trace: java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid conversion fro... This was the XSL used: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xs... The problem was , DateUtil.java had two getDate methods, one taking long parameter, the other taking a String parameter. And Java's XSLT get confused about which one to use: import java.util.Date; import java.text.SimpleD...

Especially, the ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" line should be absent in order for networking to work. #!/usr/bin/vmplayer # Filename: Win2000.vmx...

Troubleshooting wifi connectivity is always a headache. I just spent 4 days fixing (actually, finding a workaround for) this problem. Everything worked fine when my PC is connected to a monitor. Then I switched display to my LCD TV with HDMI integrated sound and video. Then my wifi stopped working. The signal strength is perfect and I verified my password a million times (I'm using WPA-PSK). When I tried to connect, it simply fails. No error message, not even an error code! I suspected the HDMI integrated sound driver so I switched sound to the native Realtek driver, still no hope. Then I upgraded the wifi driver to the latest, it didn't help. Uninstalled and reinstalled the driver and rebooted, no difference. What was the...

It happened on Windows XP with JBoss 5.1.0.GA. This is the stack trace: 2010-07-30 16:39:52,177 ERROR [org.jboss.kernel.pl... According to " (SOLVED) JBAS-7674 solution for JBoss 5.1?? (Windows lock on jnp-service.url) ", the problem seemed to be solved for JBoss 6. In the meanwhile for JBoss 5, disabling Windows Indexing Service seemed to solve the problem. Quote from aforementioned link: It seemed that a file was being locked for some reason, and that file was obviously necessary for JBoss to start. Some further investigation (ok, I admit, I just tried to delete all of JBoss with the faith that it would fail on the locked file), it turns out that file was some file called jnp-service.url in the data directory of the default server. After downloading...

Start remote desktop client by clicking Start and Run, then enter mstsc. Click the "Options" button, select the "Local Resources" tab, check "Clipboard" More options are available when you click the "More..." button (share local drives etc.).