Linux likes the Logitech Premium Notebook Headset

Yesterday i bought the "Logitech Premium Notebook Headset" for 49,99€ at a big German electronic supplier. I hoped that it would run on my Ubuntu 7.04 without needing big work on the system. I have good experience with just buying and hoping that it would run... And this time i was lucky too:

[ 155.072000] usb 2-4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[ 155.280000] usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 155.828000] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio

Another prove that Linux is ready to be used by "normal" users! There is no need to know how to compile a kernel anmyore ;)

Click here to view the English product page on logitech.com.

Ekiga

Due to its USB adapter with an integrated sound card you will have two audio devices available. This is great for VoIP because you can use one device for listening to music or videos and the other one independent of the first channel for VoIP.

A shared folder with VMWare Server

The school decided to teach us pupils C#. Great. A programming language for windows... Do i need to say more?
I do not have any version of Microsoft Windows, so i told my teacher that i am not going to buy any Microsoft product and that he had to give me any version i can run VisualStudio on. He finally gave me an "MSDN Academic Alliance" Windows XP.
I installed it into a VMWare virtual machine and after hours of "updating" it was finally ready to be used.
I wanted to save the VisualStudio projects directly on my notebook and not on the virtual hard disk of the VM because i have the apprehension of losing all my data by destroying Windows (i did not use Windows for years now...)
My idea was to create a shared Samba folder on the Notebook and mount it in the Windows VM. The Problem is that i use the notebook at work, at home, at my girlfriend and at school. Thank DHCP, my notebook has about three different IPs on a normal day. Hard to connect a mapped network drive in windows to varying IPs.
The solution is to use a host-only VMNet! In a host-only network the VM can only connect to its host.

Step 1: Check (ifconfig) if your VMWare server has a host only network (usually "vmnet1")
Step 2: Add a host-only network interface to the Windows VM
Step 3: Boot the VM, check if the new network interface has an IP (ipconfig) and if you can ping the host (ping [address of vmnet1])
Step 4: Create a shared SMB folder on the host
Step 5: Map the SMB Folder on the Windows VM (e.g. \\172.16.220.1\csharp - "csharp" is the name of the share on the host)

This is it! You should now have a drive mapped to the folder on the host.


Troubleshooting:
Check you smb.conf if samba is listening on vmnet1 (Ubuntu standard is to only listen on eth0 and lo)
Did you create samba users? (sudo smbpasswd -a [username])
Check if the folder share is working (use "smbtree")

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