Shared Host Drives of Integration Features
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From: YR on 20 Apr 2010 22:20 Hi, Shared host drives are listed as "system folder" under the "Computer" folder. They are not mapped drives. Thus older applications that open files listing "drive" and "directory" cannot access to such shared host drives. Windows XP Mode is developed to run older applications. Why does Microsoft switch to such "concept" instead of "mapped drive" used in the earlier versions of virtual PC? Is there any fix? Or, have I not understood this correctly? Thank you. Best regards, YR
From: Steve Jain on 21 Apr 2010 02:09 "YR" wrote: > Hi, > > Shared host drives are listed as "system folder" under the "Computer" > folder. They are not mapped drives. Thus older applications that open > files listing "drive" and "directory" cannot access to such shared host > drives. > > Windows XP Mode is developed to run older applications. Why does > Microsoft switch to such "concept" instead of "mapped drive" used in the > earlier versions of virtual PC? Is there any fix? Or, have I not > understood this correctly? > > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > YR > > . You can still map drives in XP Mode. Switch the networking type to use the host's NIC instead of Shared Networking and map the drive as you normally would. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP http://vpc.essjae.com/
From: YR on 22 Apr 2010 00:17 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Jain [mailto:essjae(a)nospam.hotmail.com] Posted At: Wednesday, 21 April, 2010 2:09 PM Posted To: microsoft.public.virtualpc Conversation: Shared Host Drives of Integration Features Subject: RE: Shared Host Drives of Integration Features "YR" wrote: > Hi, > > Shared host drives are listed as "system folder" under the "Computer" > folder. They are not mapped drives. Thus older applications that open > files listing "drive" and "directory" cannot access to such shared host > drives. > > Windows XP Mode is developed to run older applications. Why does > Microsoft switch to such "concept" instead of "mapped drive" used in the > earlier versions of virtual PC? Is there any fix? Or, have I not > understood this correctly? > > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > YR > > . > You can still map drives in XP Mode. Switch the networking type to use > the > host's NIC instead of Shared Networking and map the drive as you > normally > would. > -- > Cheers, > Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP > http://vpc.essjae.com/ Thank you very much. Did you mean the "usual" way of mapping a networked share? I believe that, in Virtual PC 2007, sharing host drives is enabled by the Integration Features and such sharing is "portable". Mapping a networked share would depend on the network configuration and may not be "portable" (always available on, for example, a notebook). I apologize if I did not understand correctly. Thank you. Best regards, YR
From: Bill Grant on 22 Apr 2010 00:45 "YR" <yrkao444(a)live.com.sg> wrote in message news:25B989AF4E6C4B7D87C26CA063557271(a)iris... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Jain [mailto:essjae(a)nospam.hotmail.com] > Posted At: Wednesday, 21 April, 2010 2:09 PM > Posted To: microsoft.public.virtualpc > Conversation: Shared Host Drives of Integration Features > Subject: RE: Shared Host Drives of Integration Features > > "YR" wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Shared host drives are listed as "system folder" under the "Computer" >> folder. They are not mapped drives. Thus older applications that open >> files listing "drive" and "directory" cannot access to such shared host >> drives. >> >> Windows XP Mode is developed to run older applications. Why does >> Microsoft switch to such "concept" instead of "mapped drive" used in the >> earlier versions of virtual PC? Is there any fix? Or, have I not >> understood this correctly? >> >> >> Thank you. >> >> Best regards, >> YR >> >> . > >> You can still map drives in XP Mode. Switch the networking type to use >> the >> host's NIC instead of Shared Networking and map the drive as you >> normally >> would. >> -- >> Cheers, >> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP >> http://vpc.essjae.com/ > > > Thank you very much. > > Did you mean the "usual" way of mapping a networked share? I believe that, > in Virtual PC 2007, sharing host drives is enabled by the Integration > Features and such sharing is "portable". Mapping a networked share would > depend on the network configuration and may not be "portable" (always > available on, for example, a notebook). > > I apologize if I did not understand correctly. > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > YR > If you base your networking between host and guest on the physical NIC, then it will fail if the physical NIC is not connected to a switch. You can get around that by inserting a loopback plug into the NIC instead of a patch cable. Or you can install a Microsoft Loopback Adapter in the host and use that as the basis for your host/guest networking.
From: Pavel A. on 23 Apr 2010 16:58 The subst command can map a drive letter to these "system folders" - exactly like in a terminal server session. Btw, in VMWare you just tick a single checkbox, and it will assign a drive letter to shared folders automagically. --pa "YR" <yrkao444(a)live.com.sg> wrote in message news:5069C6C9253B4ACDAF6A42232C200DA8(a)iris... > Hi, > > Shared host drives are listed as "system folder" under the "Computer" > folder. They are not mapped drives. Thus older applications that open > files listing "drive" and "directory" cannot access to such shared host > drives. > > Windows XP Mode is developed to run older applications. Why does > Microsoft switch to such "concept" instead of "mapped drive" used in the > earlier versions of virtual PC? Is there any fix? Or, have I not > understood this correctly? > > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > YR >
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