Hi Jochen, so you upgraded the Windows guest additions from 1.6.0 to 1.6.2 if I understood you correctly. I'll try to reproduce this behavior, thanks for your report.
-Andreas. Jochen Roderburg wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
