shares on Windows XP guest

[dpve1]

Hi,
I am ready to pull whatever hair I have left out.
I have tried evertything -- read a hundered google articles and for life
of me can not get the shares to work on Windows XP gues

I have installed the Guest additions.
I have added the share
When I bring up Explorer and browse it shows
Virtual Box Shared Folders on the left but
no share drives so I cant map them

I tried the net use command at the dos prompt and get the following error

C:\Documents and Settings\dpve1>net use x: \\vboxsvr\XP-SHARE
System error 67 has occurred.

The network name cannot be found.

There is a little icon at the bottom of the Windows XP window and if I hover
it show the share folders I created. with full access

\\vboxsvr\XP-SHARE

Vbox host is Solaris 10/X86

VBOX 1.6.4

Any help is greatly appreciated
TIA

[Sasquatch]

Try it with a more simple name, like share. Always use names that do not contain any illegal UNC characters, as those can give problems. Use a-z only, no spaces, dashes, underscores or whatever special character you can think of.

[dpve1]

Hi,
I appreciate the reply
Created a new folder on my host called it share
It still does not show up
Tried


C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis Van Eron>net use x: \\vboxsvr\share -z
System error 67 has occurred.

The network name cannot be found.


C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis Van Eron>net use x: \\vboxsvr\share -p
System error 67 has occurred.

The network name cannot be found.

Is this step necessary.
The share still does not show up explorer either.

[vbox4me2]

Try a more recent version of VBox.

[dpve1]

Is there no way to get this working?
Honesty I spent many many hours to get this all set up and
am reluctant to upgrade with the fear that I may have
to redo all of the work previously done to get the guests working.

There must be a reason why I cant get this to work.
Unless there is no way and the code is flawed.

Why is the Windows XP guest having an issue with \\vboxsvr?

Can someone please provide some ideas of what to do next?

TIA

[Sasquatch]

Fun: try \\vbosRv, so swap the r and v.

[dpve1]

Does not matter
I have tried it both ways, although i have read hundreds of
articles saying it should be of the naming convention
\\vboxsvr
and not
\\vboxsrv

Can anyone confirm which is correct, although both fail for me

I have also tried
net use x: \\<ipaddress of Vbox host\xpshare
and it give me a login prompt
and I try login using the valid u/w // p/w
and it give me
C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis Van Eron>net use x: \\129.147.9.5\xpshare
Enter the user name for '129.147.9.5': root
Enter the password for 129.147.9.5:
System error 1240 has occurred.

The account is not authorized to log in from this station.


I googled this and gets lots of hits that seem to involve hacking the registry.


Anyone seen this before

I may be getting closer

[Perryg]

So we can see what the problem is:
From host terminal vboxmanage showvminfo <VM Name> and post here. Replace <VM Name> with the actual name of the VM Use "" if the name has a space in it.

[dpve1]

oot@unknown # VBoxManage showvminfo "Windows XP"
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.4
(C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Name: Windows XP
Guest OS: Windows XP
UUID: 64011572-316a-44f7-6898-34532fcd82ba
Config file: /.VirtualBox/Machines/Windows XP/Windows XP.xml
Memory size: 192MB
VRAM size: 8MB
Boot menu mode: message and menu
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: on
PAE: off
Time offset: 0 ms
Hardw. virt.ext: off
State: running (since 2009-09-24T18:33:01.381000000)
Monitor count: 1
Floppy: empty
SATA: disabled
Primary master: /export/DVE/XP/snapshot/{617267e5-608c-4d18-be87-9d561ad813c4}.vdi (UUID: 617267e5-608c-4d18-be87-9d561ad813c4)
DVD: empty
NIC 1: MAC: 080027B428E1, Attachment: NAT, Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: Am79C973, Reported speed: 0 Mbps
NIC 2: disabled
NIC 3: disabled
NIC 4: disabled
UART 1: disabled
UART 2: disabled
Audio: disabled (Driver: Unknown, Controller: Unknown)
Clipboard Mode: Bidirectional
Video mode: 816x480x32
VRDP: disabled
USB: disabled

USB Device Filters:

<none>

Available remote USB devices:

<none>

Currently Attached USB Devices:

<none>

Shared folders:

Name: 'xpshare', Host path: '/export/xpshare' (machine mapping), writable

VRDP Connection: not active
Clients so far: 0

Guest:

Statistics update: disabled

Snapshots:

Name: Snapshot 1 (UUID: 307bfa29-c2df-45dd-dcbc-e77b6ef638fc)

[Perryg]

Try this in the command window of the XP Guest

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net use X: \\vboxsvr\xpshare -p

Then it should show up as a mounted network drive in the file manager as drive x
Also just so you know, since you have the guest in NAT the normal network share and mapping will not work. You must use the VBox shared folder and map it the way I am showing you.
You should be able to copy and paste the command above in the command window of XP so it should be short and sweet.

[dpve1]

Thanks, for the reply

Ive tried this several times already --
but for the sake of the exercise

C:\Documents and Settings\dpve1>net use X: \\vboxsvr\xpshare -p
System error 67 has occurred.

The network name cannot be found.


If I substitute the IP address of the VB host
I get the following


C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis Van Eron>net use X: \\129.147.9.5\xpshare
Enter the user name for '129.147.9.5': root
Enter the password for 129.147.9.5:
System error 1240 has occurred.

The account is not authorized to log in from this station.

Any ideas on next step?

TIA

[Sasquatch]

Are you 100% sure that you installed the GA? That error only occurs if you don't have the GA installed, and/or no SF defined. A typo is a possibility too, but I doubt that.

[dpve1]

Yes -- I am 200% sure,. In fact I have uninstalled them and reinstalled
them several times now.

[Perryg]

Start the Windows XP guest and look at the lower right side (near the clock) of the window.
Do you see a blue cube for the additions? Hover over it and see what version it states.
Also while in the guest click on the devices tab at the upper left and click on the shared folder.
See if it reports that you have the share and are using the actual share name. Caps might matter here as well.

[dpve1]

Yes the blue icon is there and shows 1.6.4r34808
Under devices dropdown, the share shows up correctly

Still cant map it though