Win XP Host/Win Vista Guest: shared folders/clipboard?

[MGilly]

I have VBox 3.0.4 running on a Windows XP SP3 Host. I have a Windows Vista Ultimate Guest, with Guest Additions installed. I have set up a shared folder, and no matter what I do, I can't see it in my guest OS. I also have "Shared Clipboard: Bidirectional" enabled in the virtual machine's "General" settings, and yet stuff that I "copy" in my guest is not available to "paste" in my host.

I'm pretty confused, since I thought I set everything up appropriately (using the user documentation as reference and carefully checking all settings). Is this a known problem with Vista guests? Should I upgrade to 3.0.6 to solve this problem? Help?

[Perryg]

Assuming you have installed the guest additions:
You can create a share in the guest settings of the VBox program then start the guest and then open a command window and type the following to mount the share in Windows.

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net use x: \\vboxsvr\sharename -p

Replace sharename with the name you gave the share in VirtualBox. It will now show up in your file manager.

[MGilly]

Thank you SO MUCH! I saw the instructions for adding the share via the command line in the manual, but it's implied that you only need to do so on Linux or similar guests. In a Windows guest, it's just supposed to show up (I think it might even show up for me in my XP guest, I can't recall).

In any case, that worked, and I can see my shared folder now, which will make saving screenshots for my user manuals a lot easier.

Still don't understand why the shared clipboard thing doesn't work, but I'll live with it.