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

[Billy Bacon]

What I need to do is be able to open up a Finder window on my powerbook
(Panther) and browse over to my Window XP OS while Virtual PC is running (I
want to browse the C drive on my Windows OS). Right now I can be working in
Virtual PC WinXP and open Microsoft Explorer and I have a shared drive (Z:)
that I've mapped. So I can browse files that reside on my Mac while I'm
working in my Windows world.

I need to be able to do the reverse while working in my Mac OS X
environment. 

Is this possible? Right now my Mac *cannot* see my Windows XP environment.
But my Windows XP environment *can* see my Mac environment.

And yes, my Virtual PC application is running on the same machine (so maybe
in my last e-mail, 'connect' was probably a bad word to use).

Can this be done?

Thanks for your help.

- Billy -

On 1/18/04 1:23 PM, "Mel Krewall" <mkrewall at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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