Situation: VirtualBox on a Linux host, Windows 2000 guest, host interface networking.
First a little history: After trying upgrade to VBox 1.6.0 a while ago the networking did not work at all. Searching in the net brought the result, that this was an already known regression in that version which was to be corrected in the next version. So I "downgraded" again to the last working 1.5.x version and waited for that "next" version. Actually I "forgot" to also downgrade the Windows Guest Additons to that version, so I had a mixed, but working Vbox 1.5.x installation with Guest Additions 1.6.0 in the Windows VM. The awaited next version came then out as 1.6.2 and after installing it on the Linux host the networking in the Windows VM really worked again. As final touch I upgraded also the Guest Additions to 1.6.2 and after that the Windows networking was not working anymore. The stored connections to SMB shares did not work, I could not make new connections, in fact, the Windows Network had disappeared completely from the Network Neighborhood. And this situation was really persistent now, downgrading to various older versions of VBox and/or Guest Additions did not help this time. I finally managed to get rid of the problem by completely deinstalling and reinstalling the Windows Network Client/Server components on the Windows system. Finally a little accidently I found also something in the Windows Registry which I think was/is the cause for the problem: There are keys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order\ProviderOrder and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\HwOrder\ProviderOrder which in the VM contain now "LanmanWorkstation,VBoxSF,manWorkstation" After the 1.6.2 Guest Additions installation these keys were missing the LanmanWorkstation part and I suspect that the update process made a little error here. 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 [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
