<ol><li value="5"> You will be prompted to enter your VM2 username and password (one time only). Refer to diagram on right.<br><br>'''NOTE:''' It may take approximately 30 seconds to display the file contents.<br><br></li><li>Where your successful? If not, try to troubleshoot the problem first, then ask your lab assistant or instructor for assistance.</li><li>Close the Windows Explorer application window.</li><li>Click on the '''START''' menu, and click on '''Computer'''.</li><li>Click on the Map Network Drive button, and create a '''mapped network drive''' (called it drive '''Z:''') which is a Samba share of your VM2 machine for the home directory making certain option to '''Reconnect at Login''' is enabled.</li><li>When finished, click on '''Network''' in Windows file manager to confirm that the network share is present.</li><li>Restart your Windows VM and confirm that the network share is active.</li><li>Finally, enable your Windows VM firewall, but with an exception for a Samba connection (i.e. the port number obtained from the previous investigation).</ol>

::<span style="color:green;font-size:1.5em;">&#x2713;</span> Proof of network share of VM2 machine from Windows VM via Windows Explorer application.::<span style="color:green;font-size:1.5em;">&#x2713;</span> Firewall settings on your Windows VM to allow Linux Samba network share.