Can't access Windows disk from Mac Finder

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thompsam@us.ibm.com

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I have just upgraded from 3.0 to 4.0 and after the upgrade, I am no longer able to access my Windows virtual disk from the Mac's Finder application. I have upgraded to the latest level of Desktop 4.0 and have reinstalled the latest version of Parallels Tools. In my VM configuration, I have the "Mount virtual disks to Mac OS Desktop" checked. I am able to access the Mac file system from the Windows VM, but having access to the Windows file system from the Mac is a feature i need and use heavily.

Has anyone else seen this behavior after upgrading to version 4 and can advise on what to do to fix this ?
Sam
 
Magically its fixed

Flagg, thanks for trying to help, but yesterday this magically got resolved. I'm not sure this is the "proper" way to resolve this, but yesterday when I was copying a file over to a network file system, the second to the left pane in my Mac's Finder app all of a sudden got populated with a list of devices I had access to and one of the devices was my Parallels virtual drive. I said, hmm, let me try something and dragged it from the second pane to the leftmost pane under the device list and it has been there ever since. Not sure why it suddenly showed up in the second pane, but it did.

For others who are reading this that may have this problem and not get lucky like I did above, the following is a response I received from the parallel support email with a series of steps they suggest to resolve this problem:

1. Stop Virtual Machine
2. Click on Configure
3. Under configure on the left hand side click on Shared Folder
4. Under shared folder please make sure the following options are checked,
a. Share MAC OSx folder with Windows
b. Home folder only
c. Map folders to drive letters
d. Share all windows disk with MAC OS X
e. Mount virtual disk to MAC OS X desktop
5. Click on OK and restart your Virtual Machine


Hope this works for you....Sam
 
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