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Vista - RE: File sharing among Host and Guest

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Old 05-01-2009   #1 (permalink)
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RE: File sharing among Host and Guest

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> Sorry about that: it's not a really new topic ...
> I want to use (R/W) Host files in the Guest environment.
> The first suggestion would be to use the "Shared Folders" feature.
> Unfortunately this feature is still very unreliable: when one explores the
> Guest file system, if the depth of the tree being explored is deeper that 3,
> Windows Explorer becomes unresponsive and unstable.
> That is most of the times it crashes.
> Even worse: if I succeed in opening a ("deep") file, I'm not sure that that
> file, once modified, can be successfully saved (many times the application
> crashes, and so my modifications remain unsaved).
> A really very poor feature !
> It should be possible to share files through the network.
> Unfortunately this approach works only if I'm attached to some network. It
> doesn't work if I'm working on a train ...
> It should be possible to use the Loopback Adapter as a network support.
> I tried to do that in many ways, but I never succeded !
> Help me please !
> The host system is (now) Windows Server 2008 EE/64bit, the guest system is
> Windows Server 2003/R2/32bit.
> Many thanks
> --
> Teodoro
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