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Shared folders don't work? try a trailing backslash
Posted: 17. Dec 2008, 12:10
by Juggalo
Would like to Using Windows XP 3 as host and guest. Created the following shared folder: (Q:\Shared does exist on the host machine of course).
But no matter what I try, whenever I want to open
\\vboxsvr\Shared it doesn't work.
Accidentally I tried opening
\\vboxsvr\Shared\ (mind the trailing backslash) and that worked immediately!
Just thought I'd share (pun) this with anyone else running into this problem.
Can be tricky because the tooltip in the shared folders icon also shows the share names *without* the backslash.
Re: Shared folders don't work? try a trailing backslash
Posted: 17. Dec 2008, 16:12
by boyan.sharic
It doesn't work for me. I have Vista 32 host and win2000 guest and both options (\\vboxsvr\Shared\ and \\vboxsvr\Shared) DO NOT work.
Re: Shared folders don't work? try a trailing backslash
Posted: 17. Dec 2008, 21:26
by Sasquatch
boyan.sharic wrote:It doesn't work for me. I have Vista 32 host and win2000 guest and both options (\\vboxsvr\Shared\ and \\vboxsvr\Shared) DO NOT work.
How do you have your SF set?
Posted: 28. Dec 2008, 16:06
by boyan.sharic
I`ve set it to full access to C drive and named it "drive". When I type "\\vboxsvr\drive" or "\\vboxsvr\drive\" nothing happens
Posted: 31. Dec 2008, 01:49
by Sasquatch
boyan.sharic wrote:I`ve set it to full access to C drive and named it "drive". When I type "\\vboxsvr\drive" or "\\vboxsvr\drive" nothing happens
So, what is the exact drive path? Is it C:, or C:\? Perhaps you're not allowed to share the system drive. Try a subdirectory, like C:\test.
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Posted: 1. Jan 2009, 16:09
by boyan.sharic
The exact drive path was C:\ and Ive changed it to F:\ (another partition) and still no joy
here`s a snapshot
Posted: 1. Jan 2009, 17:24
by Sasquatch
Can you post a screenshot of the SF window too? That way we see what you have set and the name(s) of the shared folders. Right click the folder icon in the VM GUI to show it.
Posted: 2. Jan 2009, 00:58
by boyan.sharic
Here, shared folders settings in vbox
and shared folders window when the guest is running...you can clearly see that vbox service is in the system tray and that path \\vboxsvr\F_DRIVE is not accessible
btw, happy new year and thank you for your help
if it means anything, im using 1.6.6 version of vbox
Posted: 2. Jan 2009, 01:14
by Sasquatch
Rename the shared folder. It doesn't like the underscore (_). Give it the name of the drive itself, and if it doesn't have a label, just give it one, like 'data', or 'host'.
Posted: 5. Jan 2009, 13:07
by boyan.sharic
Thank you for your support. I`ve updated VB to 2.1.0 (before I read your last reply), installed VB additions and everything works like a charm.
