Running Win7 guest on WinXP host.
Have guest additions installed.
Have read the manual.
Have made a folder in the C: drive on my host; called it "VB Shared Folder"
In XP, have made it shared, permissions = anyone can use it, full control.
In the Win7 guest, under devices/shared folders, I use the dialog box to browse to the shared folder easily. There are two selection boxes for Read-Only and Make Permanent.
Whether I do or do not check either of those boxes, the OK button remains grayed out and I can't enable the shared folder.
I tried enabling it in the main VB window with the V-machine shut off, but the same thing happens. I browse to the "VB Shared Folder" but whether I do or do not check the Read Only box, the OK button remains grayed out and I can't enable the share.
Would really appreciate some help.
[Solved] Create shared folder: OK Button grayed out
Re: Create shared folder: OK Button grayed out
Try a short name without spaces, like 'vbshare1'.
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Re: Create shared folder: OK Button grayed out
Excellent!
For years after Windows allowed long file names and spaces, I still used 8 character = 3 names because I didn't trust the new scheme to work all the time. Now that I have been lulled into a false sense of confidence....
Thanks to you, when I made the share name VBshare, the Button said OK! and I enabled the share folder...
...but the share folder doesn't show up in Windows Explorer. If I shut off the machine the share shows up in the main VirtualBox settings module; but when I turn the machine back on, even though it's still listed as a share shared folder in the devices/share folder menu, it doesn't show up as an available resource in Windows Explorer
For years after Windows allowed long file names and spaces, I still used 8 character = 3 names because I didn't trust the new scheme to work all the time. Now that I have been lulled into a false sense of confidence....
Thanks to you, when I made the share name VBshare, the Button said OK! and I enabled the share folder...
...but the share folder doesn't show up in Windows Explorer. If I shut off the machine the share shows up in the main VirtualBox settings module; but when I turn the machine back on, even though it's still listed as a share shared folder in the devices/share folder menu, it doesn't show up as an available resource in Windows Explorer
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Re: Create shared folder: OK Button grayed out
The manual notes the command to mount the shared folder, use that one:
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net use x: \\vboxsrv\<sharename>
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Re: Create shared folder: OK Button grayed out
With this issue i found you can still use long files, but it dose not like spaces in the file name(VB_Shared_Folder). So feel free to use long file names, just be sure not to use any spaces.
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Re: Create shared folder: OK Button grayed out
Well, it turns out using spaces was a really foolish thing for me to do.
I used spaces not only in the shared folder name but in the machine name: "Win 7 RC - 4" (the last bit to designate it was machine number 4)
When I changed the machine name to "Win7RC_4" the shared folder appeared in Windows Explorer and all was well.
Thanks very much for you assistance.
I used spaces not only in the shared folder name but in the machine name: "Win 7 RC - 4" (the last bit to designate it was machine number 4)
When I changed the machine name to "Win7RC_4" the shared folder appeared in Windows Explorer and all was well.
Thanks very much for you assistance.