[G4] Connecting from my Mac to my Virtual PC Windows XP

Mel Krewall mkrewall at mac.com
Sun Jan 18 12:23:41 PST 2004


Billy,
What do you mean when you say "connect"? If the VPC is on the same 
machine that you want to connect to, you can install VPC Extras and 
share your Mac hard drive with the VPC instance. You can manipulate the 
same files in Windows as you could in the Finder. The Go menu only 
works from a network perspective and VPC default is shared networking, 
meaning that the Windows instance and the Mac use the same network 
connection, therefore they wouldn't understand connecting to one 
another. Sharing the disk between Windows and Mac is probably the way 
you want to go.
Mel

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are 
still rolling."
  ~ Mark Twain


On Jan 18, 2004, at 7:33 AM, Billy Bacon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Here's my 
> problem.
>
> I'm trying to connect from my Mac to my Window XP installation which 
> runs on
> my Virtual PC application. I can connect the other way (VP WinXP to my 
> Mac)
> with no problems. I can't seem to figure out what naming convention I 
> need
> to use to connect my Mac to Windows. From the Finder 'Go' menu at the 
> top of
> the screen I click "Connect To Server". But I've tried various 
> combinations
> of a computer name for my Virtual PC WinXP and nothing has working. My
> computers name (WinXP on Virtual PC) is 'VPXP'. Typing this in the 
> 'connect
> to server' textbox doesn't work either.
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you
>
> - Billy -
>
>
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