In this how-to you’ll learn that it is possible to mount a Windows folder share to the VMWare ESX Service Console. Like this you can use your windows shares as an additional storage sp ace within your ESX Server. So in this scenario I imagine that I have one physical server running 2003 Server, and on the other side I have another physical server running VMware ESX server. What I’ll try to do is basically follow this procedure that you see below.
What you will need:
1.) Windows local or domain account, and an available Windows file share
2.) You have to open firewall port for smbClient
3.) Create local mount point
4.) You also have to make sure that the Netfs service is started
5.) Modify Windows 2003 Local Security Policy (if necessary)
So you can just follow this guide: