I have various networking problens which could all be related but I am not really sure.
Current situation: VirtualBox 1.6.2 on a Linux host, Windows 2000 guest, host interface networking. 1) In general the network works (after it stopped working in 1.6.0 and after a massive update problem which I will report in a separate thread). Normal TCP/IP functions seem to be ok, in my local net and with systems all over the world. Windows networking works also with Samba shares on Linux systems (the VM host and another one), I can read and write there without problems. But I have a strange problem with shares on another (non-virtual) Windows XP machine. Reading from the shares is ok, but when I try to write, it hangs a while, then I get either an error message (not all data could be written ....) or it just seems to succeed. In both cases I have then a file on the destination with correct attributes (size, date, ...), but the file contains only zero-bytes. 2) I cannot print to a network printer on my local net. My printer is connected to a little print-server box by D-Link. the box can be used with UNIX-LPD or Windows-SMB protocols and both ways work from the non-VM Linux and Windows machines. When I make some experiments with command-line programs in the Windows VM I see the following: lpq printserver succeeds. lpr printserver printfile hangs a while and eventually gives an error message that it cannot write to the printserver. net view \\printserver shows the print share. cp printfile \\printserver\printshare works. But both acceess methods do not work when I define them for a "normal" Windows print queue. When I try to print a file they just hang there in the queues "for ever". 3) Last not least: Automatic Windows Updates do not work, in the log file I see a number of those cryptic Windows error message which all seem to mean that it somehow could not connect to the MS updates servers. Another strange thing is that there had been a short time-frame when all these errors disappeared, but I can't remember if this was correlated to a particular VBox version or to some other change in my system or was purely random. Jochen Roderburg ZAIK/RRZK University of Cologne Robert-Koch-Str. 10 Tel.: +49-221/478-7024 D-50931 Koeln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
