running appplication in 'shared folders'

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mountlion

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I'm running build 1970 with win2000 as guest OS.

Using win2000 I see three different disk-drives where I can read and write data without problems:
- local disk c: (stored in the image file)
- shared folders (stored in my OSX account)
- network disk (stored on an external harddisk connected through ethernet).

I've now copied the same application to these three locations. The application runs fine when
launching from local disk c: and from the network disk, but it doesn't run correctly when launching
from the shared folders.
The application claims about missing license file. It looks like the appplication cannot read the
license file that is stored in the same directory as the application.

Is there anything special how the shared folders are mapped in windows 2000 ( \\.psf ) ?
Or is .psf somehow hidden for certain appplications ?
 
Hey, sounds like a bug in the application that you are running - which one is it? Quite a lot of windows apps don't like files and folders that start with a '.' character.

You could probably work around this by creating a network drive and mapping it to your shared folders - i have a z: drive which gives me access to my mac HD this way.

You may well know how to do this already, if not - here's how - create a network drive by going to Tools->Map Network Drive... in Windows, then copy the full \\.psf\... path to there. If you check the "Reconnect at login" box, then it will reappear whenever you log in.
 
Hey, thanks for the hint. That was it !
After mapping the folder to a network drive it works. It seems to be the leading '.' character in the path that causes the issue in the windows application.
 
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