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

[Daniel Brieck]

Billy,

1. What mac os X are you running?

2. What workgroup does the pc think it os on ( This matters before mac 
os X.3 panther, if it is a different workgroup it will not necessarily 
show up)?     For mac os X.2 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107137

3. Did you enable file sharing on the windows PC ? You should see a 
hand by the C: drive if you are sharing it. If not right click on 
sharing

4. Also you may want to try playing with Network Settings on the VPC 
List (Ex. Virtual Switch)



On Jan 18, 2004, at 8:32 PM, Billy Bacon wrote:

> 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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