windows 8 - no network drive access - virtual box 4.1.20

[Tobias]

Hello,

I use Oracle Virtual Box version 4.1.20 on my desktop pc with windows 7 enterprise 64 bit and I have created several virtual PCs with Windows XP, Windows 7 32 Bit and Windows 7 64 Bit.

And they work, everything okay. All of them are in the domain and get their network drives correctly.

Now I created a new Windows 8 virtual machine. However, I get no network drive mapping.

The new virtual pc is in the domain like all other virtual machines.

And even if I try to connect manually, I always get "no access or access denied".

And some network drives can be seen, but when opening the first directory in the root directory it
says no access (but I really have access to those drives, I mean it works on the windows 7 virtual machines)

I researched several points here:

deactivate UAC (user access control)

windows firefall service deactivated


And I tried to logon with domain user, administrator, standard user,

no user gets the mappings and could access directories on the network drives.


On the windows 7 virtual pcs the network devices are visible at the start of the operating system,

when the "Logon.bat" works correctly.


But with the Windows 8 installation the logon.bat seems not to work,

even if a manually start the Logon.bat again, it does not work.

the windows 8 pc is integrated in the windows domain like the other virtual pcs, but with no success in the network drives.

a general internet connection is possible and the file server can be pinged.


so my question is: why is the windows 8 virutal machine not working in contrast to the windows 7 machines ?

I think the problem seems to bw windows 8, isn't it ?


I have seen, that there is a new oracle virtual version 4.2 available.

Maybe I should upgrade from 4.1.20 to 4.2 ? should i deinstall first or can I just install the new version and it deletes the older one,

but hopefully not the installed virtual machines.


I looked in several forums and noticed that some said it must be a microsoft problem for windows 8.

Do you kno a solution or a workaround ?


Thanks in advance !

Tobias

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