New Folder, Vbox Shared Folder, Launch Bar...

[rlh]

I checked the website a couple of days ago and discovered that DUBs had been introduced a while ago. That sounds like a launch bar I thought, so I downloaded for another trial, and the DUBs are great! It's just about there! All it needs now is another bar to put them on... please. (I've changed to small icons, and I guess that I can remove a bunch of the standard buttons, but it would be so much better to have (or be able to have) a separate bar.)

As per the first item in the Subject Bar, I was going to whinge about a problem creating new folders after enabling the 'Create New Subfolder Here' option in the Extended Configuration 'Context Menu' items. After enabling said option, I tried to use it to create a new (sub)folder two or three levels down in my main drive, but got an error message box about 'not being an allowed operation here' (or something like that). I tried again at higher levels up the tree, and got the same response. It wasn't until I right-clicked on 'Local Disk (C:)' that it worked as expected. I made a mental note of it, and continued with other things. It was only when I started writing this post that I went back to it in order to get the exact message, but lo and behold, it now works as expected at any sub-level of the tree. The only reason that I can think of (for it now working) is that it had to be invoked first at the root level (some sort of first-time-through thing???). Anyway, it's fine now.

However, I almost immediately hit another snag. I am running 32-bit XP (SP3) as a Vbox guest on a 64-bit W7 host. I have configured one of my W7 folders as a Vbox Shared Folder, and if I use Windows Explorer in the XP system I can see and access (as expected) the 'Virtualbox Shared Folders' entry directly under 'My Network Places\Entire Network'. But it doesn't show up in XYplorer. Is it me, or...

I'm looking forward to Xploring further.

Roger

[PeterH]

No: not only you

When I compare what's shown in WE and in XY it seems that XY only shows a deeper level than:
'My Network Places\Entire Network'
It seems to show just the contents of:
'My Network Places\Entire Network\MS Windows-Network\Workgroup-Name'
(just tried to translate from German...)
The VBox shared folders seem to be seen under:
'My Network Places\Entire Network\VBox Shared Folders'
that is, one level higher as as those shown by XY.

But I see the shared folders as drives in XY. Is this just because I automount them?

[rlh]

But I see the shared folders as drives in XY. Is this just because I automount them?

I guess so. I shared the \temp folder on my host system, then told Vbox about it in Machine\Settings. If I power up the XP machine and do

>net use x: \\vboxsvr\temp

then it appears on the XY tree as 'temp on 'vboxsvr' (X:)'.

But if I use WE then I don't have to mount it at all. It simply appears in 'My Network Places'

Roger