Problems with shared folders and Office 2007

[Joe2]

Hi all,

I am having trouble using shared folders with Virtual Box 2.2.4 or 3.0.4 (I upgraded for that) on a Ubuntu 9.04 Host, Windows XP SP3 guest and Office 2007.

I am mapping a linux folder with the GUI as Machine Folder (permanent) and map the resulting \\VBOXSVR\<folder> to drive letter V.

I can access the folder and browse its contents. However, as soon as I try to access any word 2007 files, it takes about 30 sec and then access fails. For example, when I open a .docx Document, I always get the letters <!-- b3 --> instead of the content of the file.

When I try to save a new file, I always get a complaint the file already exists. If I then chose to save under a different name, Office tries to save with a http://vboxsvr/... link and then gives me a "an error occured when trying to access the frontpage web service". (sorry, I have German error messages, this is my translation).

This happens in both NAT and bridged network environments.

Saving and reading plain text files with the windows editor works just fine.

Is this an Office 2007 issue? Anyone else having these problems?

Cheers

Joe2

[Joe2]

I found http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1728.

Indeed disabling the tcp/ip netbios helper and the WebClient services (run msconfig and go to services tab) serves as a workaround for me, too.

However, this seems to be a very long standing bug with Virtual Box going back all the way to version 1.6.2. Wow. Is Sun going to fix that at some time? I'd really appreciate that.

Cheers

Joe2