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I have the Sun XM virtualbox installed on my openSUSE 10.3 system with Vista as the guest.

I am trying to access the host folders and am unable to find using \\vboxsvr\<share> or \\vboxsrv\<share>

I have it setup (see screen below) as a share.

What am I missing?

What we are missing: Infos.

Versions?

Guest Additions installed in what Version?

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Oops!

My apologies....

Sun XM Virtual Box Version 1.64.

Guest Additions Installed - Version 1.5.2. I had 1.6 installed but read about some USB issues, so I backed the version down to 1.5.2.

I'm not sure if this matters, but I'm running openSUSE 10.3 with KDE as the host. The guest is Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1.

Try either 1.6.6 with dito GA, or 2.0.2 dito GA.

3 Options:

Disable in VISTA UAC (not a good way)

Use Version 1.66 or 2.02 with the newest Guest Additions

Use Windows Shares

3 Options:

stefan.becker wrote:Disable in VISTA UAC (not a good way)

Always done. UAC is a PITA.

stefan.becker wrote:Use Version 1.66 or 2.02 with the newest Guest Additions

Okay will try.

stefan.becker wrote:Use Windows Shares

Not sure the question there. Use "windows shares?"

Instead of Shared Folders you can use the normal windows technics to share Folder.

For a linux host this means using samba.

That works always and is 100 % stable.

Okay, installed the newest versions and all is good with the world now.

I appear to even have USB support.

stefan.becker wrote:Instead of Shared Folders you can use the normal windows technics to share Folder.

For a linux host this means using samba.

That works always and is 100 % stable.

I'm kind of a Linux newbie. I've only been using it since 2004 on a regular basis.

I still haven't figured out how to get SMB shares working on my linux boxes. I get all sorts of permissions errors and whatnot. I can use smb into windows machines but not vice versa. I use KPF, which is kludgy but seems to work.

PerfectReign wrote:

stefan.becker wrote:Instead of Shared Folders you can use the normal windows technics to share Folder.

For a linux host this means using samba.

That works always and is 100 % stable.

I'm kind of a Linux newbie. I've only been using it since 2004 on a regular basis.

I still haven't figured out how to get SMB shares working on my linux boxes. I get all sorts of permissions errors and whatnot. I can use smb into windows machines but not vice versa. I use KPF, which is kludgy but seems to work.

There are enough howto's and manuals on this topic. Don't ask it here, it's off-topic. You have to make sure that you have a valid Samba user you use to connect to your Linux. Usually, this is the same name as your login.

Oh, no worries. I'm a regular on the various forums, newsgroups and mailing lists.

Just haven't figured it out yet.