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[Solved] Access to the rest of my disk

Posted: 10. Oct 2009, 00:03
by slacker
I cant find this question around so I guess is something obvious (?) :oops:

However I need to access the rest of my disk(or at least the parts I want :mrgreen: ). I use Linux and Virtal WinXP.

I have no network adaptors set on on config, and I have installed the guest tools (if that's relevant).

Thanks!

Re: Access to the rest of my disk

Posted: 10. Oct 2009, 00:30
by Sasquatch
Then you should read the manual, chapter 4, and especially 4.6 - Shared Folders.

Re: Access to the rest of my disk

Posted: 10. Oct 2009, 01:13
by slacker
Thanks. It works..
I wasnt doing it from My Network Places (I;m not very familiar with win networking).
I was doing the cmdline "net use x:" stuff, but for the whole "/home/user" that I had declared as shared, and not a specific subfolder of it..
Actually I still dont know why it doesnt take it as a whole but since its working for the subdirs's fine

Thanks again :)

Re: [Solved] Access to the rest of my disk

Posted: 10. Oct 2009, 11:56
by Sasquatch
Your entire home folder is a private folder, so naturally VB will avoid full access to it. Especially since your VMs are stored there by default (~/.VirtualBox) and you could seriously damage them if you modified any files while running a VM.