Parallels 6 - Win XP shared user folders

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ØyvindH

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Hi,

I'm running Win XP SP3 in Parallels Desktop 6, after upgrading from Parallels 5 (and 4 before that).

After upgrading, the "Share Mac user folders" doesn't work properly. After login in the guest, I get a message syaing that //psf/Home/Desktop is not accessible. The desktop is not shared with the Mac's. If I try to open Documents in XP, a message pops up, telling me that //psf/Home/Documents is not accessible. The Mac's home folder is mounted to Z:\ in the guest and is working well (Home on '.psf'). I notice the dot in '.psf' is lacking in the network paths in the messages regarding the shared folders.

By the way, I have an Win7-install in another guest, everything is working just fine there.
 
I think Parallels Desktop 6 now uses \\psf\ instead of \\.psf\. I'm confused though. They seem to both work so I don't know what's going on. If I go to \\psf\Home I see my user folder contents. The same happens if I go to \\.psf\Home. If I press up from \\psf\Home then I get to \\psf with a list of my shared folders but if I go up from \\.psf\Home then I get to Entire Network...

Did you try reinstalling Parallels Tools?

Did you try disabling Shared Profile, log out, log in, then re-enabling, log out, log in?

Do you have Shared Folders enabled? Try disabling and reenabling that too.
 
ØyvindH
Try to reboot your Win XP guest. This should help.

joevt
You are right. PD6 now uses \\psf instead of \\.psf.
\\.psf is still partially supported for cases when some of your applications have saved \\.psf based paths. All components of Parallels Tools are aware of this change, and every dependent feature should work properly (Shared Profile, Shared Applications, Drag and Drop, etc.)
 
I have tried rebooting the guest, reinstalling Parallels Tools, and disabling/enabling shared folders and user profile several times.

When I type the network paths directly in Windows Explorer, I can get to \\.psf\Home, but not \\psf\Home or \\psf. Only 'Home on .psf' is listed in "My Network Places" (in addition to other shared folders on the network).

If I try to access \\psf\Home or any subfolders by typing path directly, or by trying to access e.g. My Documents by clicking on it, I get prompted to type a password with the username 'guestcomputername/Guest' greyed out and not possible to change. The guest account on the guest OS is disabled, by the way, and has always been. I am logging in as administrator.
 
Completly uninstalling Parallels Tools and reinstalling worked like a charm!

Also now Z:\ is mapped to \\psf\Home instead of \\.psf\Home.

Thanks guys!
 
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