Problem with \\psf\ shared drive

[derekbrumley]

I'm running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit under PD 6.0.11992 on a Mac Pro. I use Coherence mode.

I have 4 hard disk drives installed in the Mac, one of which I have dedicated to backup storage. It has a 750GB GUID partition for Time Machine and a 250GB FAT32 partition that I want to use for Windows backups. I decided to use FAT32 in the hope that it would simplify access requirements. Windows has the 250GB partition mapped as a shared "folder" with the drive letter Y:\\psf\WINBACK.

I can open WINBACK in Windows Explorer and copy files to and from it. I can create a new file in Notebook and save it in WINBACK. But when I try to set up Windows Backup to use WINBACK as its destination, it requires me to specify "Network credentials" to "access" the network location. I have tried both my Windows and Mac account names and passwords; but the result is always the same: "The specified network location cannot be used. Verify the path points to a correct network location and that the supplied credentials can be used for write access to the folder. Details> The parameter is incorrect. (0x80070057)"

What credentials do I need to use? Why does Backup need credentials at all?

Incidentally, I have deinstalled then reinstalled Parallels Tools three times but that didn't help.

 

[JosephK]

Do not access the path via the \\psf\ shared drive path, as it contains characters that many Windows programs considers illegal (i.e., a dot that is not used to prefix the bogus three character suffix hinting at a file's contents). Access the volume using the standard Windows shared mount names (e.g., 'Z') and everything will work fine. I had this problem when attempting to use Visual Studio under Parallels. It is a know "feature."

 

[derekbrumley]

Unfortunately, that won't work with Windows Backup: the application allows only removable drives or network locations. There is no provision to specify a drive by its Windows-allocated letter. As I mentioned earlier, it is the network drive "access credentials" that seem to be the problem. But thanks for the suggestion!