Upgrading to 4.3.22 from 4.3.20 produced a change in how my Shared Folder is displayed. It is now listed in Windows Explorer with a tiny red "x" in the lower right of the network drive icon, followed by the text:
Disconnected Network Drive (E:)
In 4.3.20 (and all previous releases that I can remember), the listing is a network drive icon with a tiny green status, and then:
My_Shared_Folder (\\vboxsrv) (E:)
I hasten to add that the shared folder still works. I can share files back and forth to the Host O/S. But the way it's displayed in the Guest O/S is disconcerting, not to mention a different reaction to >net use and so on.
Mark
4.3.22 and "Disconnected Network Drive"
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Re: 4.3.22 and "Disconnected Network Drive"
I'm getting the exact same thing.
If you connect to VM with the 4.3.20 GA, it still shows up correctly, so it's definitely a problem with the new guest additions.
There is a bug open for 3 weeks about this issue.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13786
Sad to see the quality of VB go down so much over time.
If you connect to VM with the 4.3.20 GA, it still shows up correctly, so it's definitely a problem with the new guest additions.
There is a bug open for 3 weeks about this issue.
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13786
Sad to see the quality of VB go down so much over time.
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Re: 4.3.22 and "Disconnected Network Drive"
I agree, it's 22 GA. During my downgrade from 22 to 20, I came up on 20, but still with 22 GA installed in the Guest. I had the problem. My next step was to drop GA back to 20, and, immediately on restarting the Guest, the problem had disappeared. I think I'll stay on 20 for a while.
Re: 4.3.22 and "Disconnected Network Drive"
I confirm !
To solve temporarily this problem until Oracle fix this, I have downgraded to the 4.3.20 release and re-installed 4.3.20 GA to my Windows VM.
I hope that the Oracle Virtualbox team will soon post a fix !
To solve temporarily this problem until Oracle fix this, I have downgraded to the 4.3.20 release and re-installed 4.3.20 GA to my Windows VM.
I hope that the Oracle Virtualbox team will soon post a fix !
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Re: 4.3.22 and "Disconnected Network Drive"
So to be clear, the "problem" is just the status icon/message in Windows Explorer showing "disconnected", but the shared folders work?
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Re: 4.3.22 and "Disconnected Network Drive"
There's a fairly in depth discussion starting here… viewtopic.php?f=1&t=66067#p312765Martin wrote:So to be clear, the "problem" is just the status icon/message in Windows Explorer showing "disconnected", but the shared folders work?
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Re: 4.3.22 and "Disconnected Network Drive"
No. Attempts to disconnect the folder result in does-not-exist error.Martin wrote:So to be clear, the "problem" is just the status icon/message in Windows Explorer showing "disconnected", but the shared folders work?
You can connect a folder manually, e.g.
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net use E: \\vboxsrv\Downloads
If you attempt to disconnect the share:
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net use E: /d
Re: 4.3.22 and "Disconnected Network Drive"
Indeed, Windows Explorer can browse the mounted network drives but some windows applications do not recognize these network drives because their 'disconnected' status.Martin wrote:So to be clear, the "problem" is just the status icon/message in Windows Explorer showing "disconnected", but the shared folders work?
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Re: 4.3.22 and "Disconnected Network Drive"
This topic seems to be a redundant duplication of the pre-existing Discuss the 4.3.22 release topic. Locking this one.