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Well then,

V 2.4 accepted the commands Sas kindly helped me with, it opened up the screen making things easier; but "devices > install guest additions" is still a dead command here.

And now to learn chinees.

nick

The first thing I wanted was to to see the XP drives but failed.

None of the commands in terminal or in "System tools" given below worked :-

Absolude chinese to me.

"MountingWindowsPartitionsThirdPartyNTFS3G "

@ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount ... artyNTFS3G

Of course it failes, the Guest does not see the Host drives, nor can the Host access the Guest drive directly. You can access the Host drive from the Guest using either Shared Folders or a Network Share.

Now what was it that you wanted to do?

Can't even find shared folders or network share thingis.

To see & manipulate files in my windows partitions. Everything I did for 20yrs in windows is there, if I cannot access them ubuntu would only be good for web browsing, provided is as safe from viruses etc as they say.

Somehow the internet worked on its own from the word go, but nothings else did.

Sorry beeing such an idiot in not hagging this linux thing, perhaps am passed it.

See the manual and/or Forum FAQ for the Guest Additions. Install them, mount the Shared Folder and you have access to your Host files.

but I thought I installed the G.Ads, the screen opened up & the pointer travels freely ubuntu /xp.

found this:- "......“My Networking Places” -> “Entire Network” -> “VirtualBox Shared Folders”. By right-clicking on a shared folder and selecting “Map network drive” from the menu that pops up, you can assign a drive letter to that shared folder. Alternatively, on the Windows command line, use the following:Code:
net use x: \\vboxsvr\sharename
While vboxsvr is a fixed name (note that vboxsrv would also work), replace “x:” with the drive letter that you want to use for the share, and sharename with the share name specified with VBoxManage..............."

which gives this:-

"............nick@nick-desktop:~$ net use O: \\vboxsvr\Cxp
No command: use
No command: use
net time to view or set time information
net lookup to lookup host name or ip address
net user to manage users
net group to manage groups
net sam to ed......................"

My XP Network Places do not have “VirtualBox Shared Folders”, but I created with “Map network drive” "O" & "P" for C:/ & "D":/ partitions. (which incidentally now I can not get rid of from my XP w.Explorer).

Please, don't mistake Windows and Linux commands. The manual also notes Linux Guests. Just scroll down a bit. The command is mount -t vboxsf name /mount/point.

Like this?, don't look good.

".......nick@nick-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t vboxsf Oxp /mount/point
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory
nick@nick-desktop:~$ ............"

Again unfortunately that elusive "VBoxManage" needed to specify a name.

I am just chasing my own tail.

You do understant that "/mount/point" is where you mount the shared folder, so it must be changed to where-ever you want it mounted? Please do some homework about the mount command, so you know what to do with it.

Thanx for all the help Sas, but am not really upto it, will lay off for a while.
nick