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Old October 5th 18, 03:21 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Win-98 virtual access to win-7 host drive

James Davis wrote:

Nothing much new to report, other than we've confirmed that a shared
folder (full read/write access, no password) on the win-98 virtual
machine can be seen and accessed by the host win-7 system.

Just to confirm - we have Windows Virtual PC (aka XP Mode)
The Vpc.exe version is 6.1.7601.17514 dated: Nov 20, 2010.


That seems to be the only way to share anything between Microsoft
Virtual PC 2007 (Not Windows 7 Virtual PC nor XP-Mode) running
Windows 98se virtual machines and Windows 7/64-bit Ultimate.


Not that this is an issue in this case - but can you install / use
Windows VPC (XP Mode) or is there a reason you're staying with MVPC 2007?

I guess I will just have to live with that fact; but it would be
nice if everything operated in the normal networking sense, where
all machines in the 'Entire (virtual) Network' were visible and
could interact with each other.


I can tell you that on separate machines - one running 98se (real, not
virtual) and the other running win-7, that the win-7 machine can see and
access shared folders on the win-98 system (but perhaps only when no
password is set?). I don't know but I suspect that it doesn't work the
other way around.

I have no problem networking virtual W98SE machines locally
within MVPC-2007,


Well, I thought that *WAS* your original problem - that you *COULDN'T*
access shared folders between Win98 running in a VM and the host win-7
system.

This is what you said:

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What do you know about networking W98se running on MVPC-2007
on Windows 7 to the W7 Host?

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How am I supposed to interpret that?

I just have a problem with networking Windows 98se to/from Windows 7
on the "Entire Network."


And like I said, that works just fine for me. Select a folder on your
win-98 machine to share. Naturally, make sure you have File and Printer
sharing turned on. Select full-access (or just read access) and no
password on the share. Then go to your win-7 system and select Map
Network Drive, and you should be able to see the win-98 system when you
browse the network. The name you should see will be what is entered in
the Identification tab on win-98 Network Neighborhood properties window.
The Workgroup setting you see there might have to match a similar
setting on the win-7 box (not sure about that).