Shared Folders problem

[kitesurfer]

Hi all,

I am trying Parallels after running BootCamp for a while and like it better.

I want to access the data in Bootcamp for now and tried Shared Folders.

I found that it is VERY slow and sometimes chrash the application accessing the file.

Even trying to open the folder from the desktop takes forever.

I wonder if anyone knows a better way to do this.

TIA

 

[alexeirrm]

I had this problem the first time I tried the shared folders. I re-installed the Paralells tools in XP (along with beta6) and that seems to have made it useable.

 

[wesley]

I think the current Shared Folders implementation is flaky. For now just the usual Windows Sharing (a.k.a. Samba, or SMB) works better for me.

BTW, that's the second time I saw someone misspell 'crash' as 'chrash'. I just thought it was interesting...

 

[kitesurfer]

Hey Wesley,

Thanks for your response.

Could you tell me where and how to get that "Samba" working, I am a long time windoze user and Mac newbie.

Thanks