Call me kooky

Fan freaking tastic.  This is probably something I won’t be doing again anytime soon.  I will eventually need to replace the OS on this server because it’s old and crufty, but I’d like to switch it over to ubuntu.  So I’d thought I get it all setup under vmware, then just dd or something the data over to the hardware when the time comes.
Windows firewall blocks samba and nfs from vmware….. great.  And now that I finaly have smb working the old server keeps crapping out on me.  Not sure if it’s a version thing of if the old server just can’t keep up.