can not connect to shared folder on host

[SamDalton]

Nikki, your frustration is well understood.

You might want to try Host Interface Networking(HIF), not NAT. This makes HostOS and GuesOS network reachable with each other. Then you can use standard Windows Network Drive to set up a shared folder between HostOS and GuestOS.

I had similar experience you have right now. VirtualBox Shared Folder easily fell frozen and file contents and property info were out of synch between HostOS(WinVista) and GuestOS(WinXP). I gave up VBox Shared Folder and NAT. HIF and network drive allocation works perfect, instead.

Hope this might be a help.

[nikki07]

Thanks, i'll try this.

[cjreid]

All,

I have a Ubuntu Host and a Vista Ultimate Guest.

I have tried all of the suggested options and I still cannot get the Vista guest to see the share.

I have tried net use...

I have tried mapping the share as \\10.0.2.2\share and \\vboxsvr\share and \\vboxsrv\share...

But nothing works.

Can someone please post a solution for this which will work for v1.5.2

Cheers

Chris

[nikki07]

i wait for a working solution, too

[stefan.becker]

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/799

I think: Forget it at the moment. Samba is working, Shared Folders not.

[nikki07]

I just installed VirtualBox 1.52 and installed the new Guest Additions 1.5.2 and now I can connect to my Host and copy files from Host to Guest and Guest to Host. I cant delete Files of the Host but it doesnt care me, because thats a security feature.

THANKS TO VIRTUALBOX AUTHORS!!!