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I am a brand new VB user (finally!) and as a matter of fact, I am posting this on windows inside of linux. Now that I have VB installed and working, I want to download and install my favorite progies that won't run in linux but the only problem is that while I am in the machine, my download rate is turtle slow. Is there a way to download software in linux and put them into a folder in windows?

Use Shared Folders. That will allow the Guest to access the Host file system.
If you use NAT now, you can also try Bridged Networking, which will put the VM in the same network as your Host. That might make your download faster too.

Sasquatch wrote:Use Shared Folders. That will allow the Guest to access the Host file system.
If you use NAT now, you can also try Bridged Networking, which will put the VM in the same network as your Host. That might make your download faster too.

Where do I put the shared folder and how do I set up Bridged Networking?

If you are able to read, then look into the User Manual

stefan.becker wrote:If you are able to read, then look into the User Manual

I'm able to read. And I read the user manual. Pretty vague.

WOW, you people are helpful.
I found this tutorial online to help me do this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Networking.
All I can say is <snip>. Could something get any more complicated?
It has to be easier than this.

Modedit: Even though you put asterisks as a censor character, it's still bad language.

There is, for Guests that can't have GA/shared folders, I use a webserver on the Host to download stuff to the Guest.

kd0afk wrote:WOW, you people are helpful.
I found this tutorial online to help me do this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Networking.
All I can say is <snip>. Could something get any more complicated?
It has to be easier than this.

Did you actually READ for which ancient version that "tutorial" IS? Since 2.1, you don't need to bridge it manually and all that other complicated stuff. Read the manual, learn from it, check the forums and when you still have difficulties with it, open a new topic for it.
Using Bridged is almost as easy as NAT. You only need to set one minor thing extra. And that is that you need to select the NIC you use for internet. Is that all so hard?

To repeat myself, I read the documentation on it and it might as well be written in wingdings. If you aren't going to be helpful please say so.

Bridged network:

• In the settings of the guest under network just select bridged adapter. Just below that select your network Interface.
• From inside the guest go to Networking and make sure that it is set to dhcp.

Shared folder:

• In a terminal type mkdir /home/<your login name>/share (use your login to replace <your login name>)
• In the settings of the guest under shared folder. Click the folder that has the green plus and then use the file manager to find the folder share.
• Give it the name share.

Now start the Windows guest. Once started open a command window and type the following:

• net use z: \\vboxsvr\share -p

I put in the code 'net use z: \\vboxsvr\share -p' in the command prompt in windows (guest) and got the error system error 58 has occured. The network path cannont be found
I tried it again and got a different number for the error this time it was error 67. and instead of path not found it said name not found

I did a search on the net use command in windows and the code you gave me was correct. The only thing I can think of is that "z:" isn't right for the device. I even tried using an "*" for the drive letter so that it would find and use the next available drive letter. That didn't work. Since the syntax is correct and the commands are correct, the only thing I can think of is that the path to the drive isn't. Or it can't find "Z:"
I am just learning this whole command line thing so this is kind of fun for me and I am learning allot.

Path not found or Name not found mean that the share you want to mount to a drive letter doesn't exist. Do you have the GA installed and defined a Shared Folder? If you didn't do both, then the command will fail.

However, something I did notice with the recent versions on one of my own XP VMs, is even though one shared folder works, and I can browse both of them using the full UNC path (\\vboxsvr\stuff), I can't mount it to a drive letter, with the exact same command you used. I'm not sure, but I don't think I updated the GA yet to the latest version, but it always worked with the version I had, and older GA can always be used on newer VB versions, so it seems that there is some sort of bug here.
Best to test this, is open the Windows Explorer, go to Network Places > Entire Network > VirtualBox Shared Folders and check your shares from there.

Sasquatch wrote:Path not found or Name not found mean that the share you want to mount to a drive letter doesn't exist. Do you have the GA installed and defined a Shared Folder? If you didn't do both, then the command will fail.

However, something I did notice with the recent versions on one of my own XP VMs, is even though one shared folder works, and I can browse both of them using the full UNC path (\\vboxsvr\stuff), I can't mount it to a drive letter, with the exact same command you used. I'm not sure, but I don't think I updated the GA yet to the latest version, but it always worked with the version I had, and older GA can always be used on newer VB versions, so it seems that there is some sort of bug here.
Best to test this, is open the Windows Explorer, go to Network Places > Entire Network > VirtualBox Shared Folders and check your shares from there.

What is "GA"?

Sasquatch wrote:Path not found or Name not found mean that the share you want to mount to a drive letter doesn't exist. Do you have the GA installed and defined a Shared Folder? If you didn't do both, then the command will fail.

However, something I did notice with the recent versions on one of my own XP VMs, is even though one shared folder works, and I can browse both of them using the full UNC path (\\vboxsvr\stuff), I can't mount it to a drive letter, with the exact same command you used. I'm not sure, but I don't think I updated the GA yet to the latest version, but it always worked with the version I had, and older GA can always be used on newer VB versions, so it seems that there is some sort of bug here.
Best to test this, is open the Windows Explorer, go to Network Places > Entire Network > VirtualBox Shared Folders and check your shares from there.

I don't have a VirtualBox shared folder in that path, so evidently something is wrong.

kd0afk wrote:What is "GA"?

It's a common known term here. It stands for Guest Additions. And as it seems that you don't even have \\vboxsvr, it's no wonder the command fails. You need to install the Guest Additions first.