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[Solved] Cannot access shared folders
Posted: 19. Jul 2009, 15:50
by 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
Re: Cannot access shared folders
Posted: 19. Jul 2009, 16:45
by 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.
Re: Cannot access shared folders
Posted: 19. Jul 2009, 19:53
by 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?
Re: Cannot access shared folders
Posted: 19. Jul 2009, 21:10
by Perryg
You can share your Documents folder and access it via a network share instead of the vbox shared folder.
Re: Cannot access shared folders
Posted: 19. Jul 2009, 21:22
by mcohenca
Perryg wrote: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.
Re: Cannot access shared folders
Posted: 19. Jul 2009, 21:51
by 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
Re: Cannot access shared folders
Posted: 19. Jul 2009, 23:38
by 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.
Re: Cannot access shared folders
Posted: 21. Jul 2009, 04:40
by mcohenca
Sasquatch wrote: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