[Solved] Cannot access shared folders

[mcohenca]

Virtualbox version:3.0.2
Host: Windows XP
Guest: Windows 7

Hi everybody,

I'm having trouble to access shared folders on my guest system.
Thats what i did: on the host system

VBoxManage sharedfolder add "Windows 7" --name "docs" --hostpath "F:\Documents and Settings\Max\Meus documentos\"

On the guest system
net use x: \\vboxsvr\docs

If I try to open the x drive on the guest system I get the message:
X: is not accessible
Parameter is Incorrect

On the host system the group for the guest system is show but cannot be accessed because of lack of permissions.
Please help

[Sasquatch]

And in the GUI, what does it say there for the Shared Folders? Did you try to share a different folder, like C:\Share? There are cases where personal folders, like the my documents folder, can't be shared and give errors like these. On Linux Guests, you get a protocol error, this is similar on your system it seems.

[mcohenca]

Sasquatch thanks for your reply.
You were right. If I try to share a simple folder as C:\share, I can access it from within my guest.
The problem is that I really need to access "My documents". Wouldn't this be possible?

[Perryg]

You can share your Documents folder and access it via a network share instead of the vbox shared folder.

[mcohenca]

You can share your Documents folder and access it via a network share instead of the vbox shared folder.

I don't know how to do this since in my guest machine the host network doesn't appear, and if I search for it it's not found.

[Perryg]

If you are using NAT you can switch to Internal or Bridged and then they should be able to see each other.
See section 6.5 & 6.6 of the VBox Users Guide for more information.
Window 7RC does not always see networks so you may need to use a command windows and do this by hand.
Example net use z: \\<ip address or name of the host>\<sharename> -p

[Sasquatch]

With NAT, you can access the Host trough 10.0.2.2.
If you really want to use Shared Folders, try to share a parent folder of the My Documents Folder. A subfolder can also be used.

[mcohenca]

With NAT, you can access the Host trough 10.0.2.2.
If you really want to use Shared Folders, try to share a parent folder of the My Documents Folder. A subfolder can also be used.

Unfortunatly no parent folder worked. But I was able to share the folder through bridged network.
Thanks for helping