Shared Folders showing as disconnect network drives in Win 7

[bradford.plummer]

Hello all,

I am just wondering if anyone else has noticed the following issues and if there is any kind of resolution:

Running VirtualBox 4.1.4 r74291 on Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) host.
Running Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 guest.

I have several Machine Folders setup as Shared folders in the settings for the virtual machine. They are all set to Auto Mount.

Shared Folder Settings

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When I view the drives in the Win7 guest they all display and appear to function correctly.

Auto Mounted Drives

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However, (this is the issue I am experiencing) when I attempt to access the folders through a WPF application my company is developing those drives appear as "Disconnected Network Drives".

Disconnected Network Drives

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On the other hand, a network folder that I manually mapped appears to be connected (that is the drive labeled: H drive (\\devdt7-phx1) (S:)). Either way, they all work. I can browse to the files through our application in the Disconnected Network drives E, F, G, H and I but the drives always display as "Disconnected".

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[bradford.plummer]

In addition I noticed that when I view the Network in the Windows 7 guest the Virtual Box server is named "VBOXSVR" (notice it is spelled VBOXS-V-R).

Windows guest Network view

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However, the auto mounted shared folders (see Auto Mounted Drives jpg in first post) are identified as being mounted from a server named "vboxsrv" (noticed it is spelled vboxs-r-v).

That's two different spellings for the same server? That doesn't make any sense. Does that mean VirtualBox is auto mounting the shared folders incorrectly? Could this be causing our WPF application to see the shared folders as Disconnected?

Just to be sure I manually attempted to connect to both \\vboxsvr and \\vboxsrv. Sure enough they both worked and both displayed the same shared folders.

Contents of VBOXS-V-R:

VBOXSVR contents

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Contents of VBOXS-R-V:

VBOXSRV contents

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I can't tell if this is causing the issue I am experiencing, I just thought I'd throw it out there...

[bradford.plummer]

One more thing....

When I access to the folders through another application such as Paint, they appear to be connected.

When using Paint

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So, does this mean that this is an issue with our WPF application and not Virtual Box?