I have a firewire external drive mounted on Mac OS 10.4, and set up as a shared folder. I can access it on Vista Ultimate virtual machine, but I can't use it as a backup device in Windows Live OneCare on that virtual machine. I get a message (attached) saying "Unsupported Network Share Name...onlly SMB shares are supported. Please change the share name and try again." Is there a way to do this? fshoff
fshoff, It is very likely, that you have a name in an unacceptable format. Could you please write your external drive name either here, or send it to me by PM?
More information on "Can't Use External hard Drive as Backup Device Thanks Flagg. When I connect the external drive with Firewire, the drive appears on the Mac OS as a mounted drive and in the Vista Guest OS as a Parallels Shared Folder named "WD My Book". If I connect it by USB it doesn't appear on the Mac OS and appears on the Windows OS as "WD My Book on '.psf' (V", but if I try to open or explore it, I get a message: "V:\ is not accessible. The network path was not found." Apparently it needs to appear in Vista as an accessible mounted drive in order to use it as a backup device in Windows Live OneCare, which is what I've been trying to do. The drive is currently formatted as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Drive. I have tried reformatting it for Windows, but the Mac Format program offers only FAT 32. I did reformat it in FAT 32 and then reformatted it on the Windows OS as NTFS. After that, it could not be accessed by either Window or Mac OS. I then returned it to the Mac format. Any suggestions? fshoff
