Folder Sharing with MSDOS and VPC2004

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SBB - 28 May 2004 13:35 GMT

I have a large install base of VPC5.2 running MSDOS622 in
a vpc which has shared access to a local folder. I went to
try this on vpc2004 and it says i cant. Can anyone help?

Im assuming that the funcitonality isnt available anymore?

Thanks

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Scott Baker - 28 May 2004 14:23 GMT

Two things:
1. Make sure you update the VPC Additions
2. You can only share to local drives on the Host. You can't share a
network drive (this is different than in 5.2)

Scott

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Mike - 29 May 2004 19:12 GMT

Hi, In DOS, when you have EMM386.EXE loaded in memory,
FSHARE.EXE will tell you that this is an incompatible host.
A workaround I have found is to remove this line from
config.sys

DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE ..

However once you do that, applications that requires EMM386
will not load, for example, Windows 3.1

I believe this is a bug in the Virtual PC 2004 additions.

I hope Microsoft will fix fshare.exe to work correctly with
the EMM386 memory manager.

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Scott Baker - 29 May 2004 20:03 GMT

True, I should have mentioned that as well but forgot.

Scott

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Mike - 30 May 2004 05:54 GMT

Hey Scott,

Do you work for Microsoft? If you do, can you provide an
explanation as to why fshare now causes problem with
EMM386? This wasn't problem in Connectix 5.2. Was this done
on purpose?

Are yo

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Scott Baker - 30 May 2004 07:09 GMT

No, I'm not a Microsoft employee, just a user like most of the people
on this forum.

The problem came up with the security rewrite that was done for the
current version of VPC. I never heard any more details than that.

Scott

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Benjamin Armstrong [MSFT] - 31 May 2004 19:57 GMT

Correct - also - we are planning to address this in a future update to
Virtual PC.

Cheers,
Benjamin Armstrong
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