Access your Mac drive under virtual Windows

Posted May 24th, 2006
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If you have been using the Parallels Desktop virtualization software to run Windows XP on your Intel Mac you may have noticed that their hacky “PSF Network” solution to accessing your Mac drive under Windows blows. Don’t get me wrong – I’m very impresses with the rest of the package, and you can’t beat the price. But it just flat at doesn’t work.

Turns out that’s ok, cause there is an easy work around. Just use the Mac’s built in support for Windows file sharing (via samba) to access your drive. Under Mac OSX just enable “Windows File Sharing” from your Sharing preferences pane. Then, under Windows I mount my home directory by accessing \iMac\duane, enable reconnect at login, and ta-dah.

Yes it seems a little odd to share files between two operating systems running simultaneously on the same computer, but hey – it works great.

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One Response to “Access your Mac drive under virtual Windows”

  1. loftyguy Says:
    December 1st, 2006 at 3:49 pm

    how do you mount a home directory in windows