Shared Snow Leopard folders not showing in Office

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Hi there

I have set up to shared folders in VirtalBox 3.1.4 to allow Windows 7 64 bit to access folders in Snow Leopard. I mapped the two folders and they show up under Network in windows explorer.

However when I got to my network places in Microsoft Office 2003, in this case through Word, the folders are not showing up. I can open files by dragging and dropping them from explorer into Word but I would like to be able to directly access the shared folders within office open files window itself. When I click save as, it takes me to my documents and not my shared folder.

I did update the hosts file, under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc to include the line:
# 127.0.0.1 vboxsvr
(as referred to in http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24485#)

Although I do find loading of files is still slow, I feel that is unlikely to be related to this problem.

Thank you for reading

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[Perryg]

You probably should map the drives so they appear in the guest as a mapped drive instead of a network share.
Example:

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net use x: \\vboxsvr\<sharename> -p

Replace <sharename> with the actual name of the share. Use a different alpha for the second share like w.

[infobleep]

Hi Perryg

Thanks for your help. I will note the command down for future use. I thought I had mapped the network drives as I got them to appear under the network list. However when I right clicked each folder, under Network, and selected map network drive, it then mapped them.

I can't remember how I got them to appear in the network list previosuly but some how I did. However I thought they only appeared in the network list once they were mapped but perhaps not.

Regards

Tim