Sent: 04/04/2006
From: "Ben Armstrong [MSFT]" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:This is blocked for security reasons. We did not want to allow an
unauthenticated user in a virtual environment to access remote resources
that required authentication.
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Neil wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> We are looking to use Virtual PC to run certain items of software that
> aren't compatible with the restictions we have in place on the PC setups we
> have designed. I tried to connect a shared folder to a network drive and it
> told me that "Network folders can't be shared by Virtual PC".
>
> Is there a reason for this as it would be very useful to be able to do that!
>
> TIA
>
> Neil.
Sent: 11/09/2007
From: "Jeff"<(email address - cut out)>
Message:
Is there any way to get at remote files that are being shared? Since I cannot add remote resources as shared folders directly, is there some other way to access them?
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Show quoted text
> Hi,
>
> We are looking to use Virtual PC to run certain items of software that
> aren't compatible with the restictions we have in place on the PC setups we
> have designed. I tried to connect a shared folder to a network drive and it
> told me that "Network folders can't be shared by Virtual PC".
>
> Is there a reason for this as it would be very useful to be able to do that!
>
> TIA
>
> Neil.
Sent: 11/10/2007
From: "Bill Grant" <not.available@online>
Message: How are you trying to share the folders? It should work if you use normal
network shares rather than using the Shared Folders option in the VPC
console settings.
"Jeff" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...
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>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are looking to use Virtual PC to run certain items of software that
>> aren't compatible with the restictions we have in place on the PC setups
>> we
>> have designed. I tried to connect a shared folder to a network drive and
>> it
>> told me that "Network folders can't be shared by Virtual PC".
>>
>> Is there a reason for this as it would be very useful to be able to do
>> that!
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Neil.
>
> Is there any way to get at remote files that are being shared? Since I
> cannot add remote resources as shared folders directly, is there some
> other way to access them?
>
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