Harry,
Touting Parallels is irrelevant for many of us, since it is a
MAC-based solution.
Jordan
--- On Tue, 1/1/13, Harry Binswanger wrote:
> From: Harry Binswanger
> Subject: Re: We should [NOT] move en masse to Nota Bene (sorry Anne!)
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 6:49 PM
>
> >
> > > In XP under Parallels with Win 7 as host machine,
> I mapped the
> > > host c: drive to x:, and I just did dir x:\ in Xy4
> and the
> > > directory came up instantly.
> >
> > For the record, what mapping procedure did you use? Did
> you do
> >
> > NET USE X: \\COMPUTERNAME\SHARENAME
> >
> > on the host machine? Something else? Was any further
> step required?
>
> Parallels does it all automatically. What I did was
> unnecessary. After a fresh reboot of the VM, Net use says:
> Y: \\psf\Home
> Z: \\psf\Host
>
> "psf" stands for "Parallels Shared Folders"
>
> and Home is a folder with some system stuff and some
> folders, e.g., Desktop, that I do recognize.. But Host is
> the root directory of the host machine.
>
> To go the other way around, that is, to let Win 7 refer to
> the guest XP via a drive letter, it's complicated:
> Start/Computer (highlight but don't click)/Properties/Map
> Network Drive/
>
> In the Map Network drive dlg box:
> Drive: [Your choice of drive-letter, I chose "X" for "XP"]
> Folder: \\[The UNC computer name of the virtual
> machine]\[Name of folder--e.g., C]
>
> Net result: in the VM, Z: refers to the host's C: drive, in
> the host, X: refers to the VM's C: drive.
>
> Again, the first mapping (Z:) seems to be automatic within
> Parallels.
>
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