Dear All, I am running Visual Studio 2005 on OSX 10.6.5 using Parallels 6. While installing WinXP i selected the option work as a Mac. Now when i try to run a website project it says the following Error 1 Failed to start monitoring changes to '\\psf\Home\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\ab'. if i create a project in the windows file system say C:\, then the project runs but the webpage never appears and eventually it times out. Help please
Any luck? Did you have any luck with this? I have just run into the same problem. I am sharing my projects folder from my Mac HD to my Win 7 VM so I can load my Visual Studio projects. I can see the share from my VM, load projects through VS, save files etc but when I try and build them I get "Failed to start monitoring changes to z:\[projectpath]". Googling around shows similar problems when related to loading VS projects from a UNC path and suggests giving permissions to Network Service by right clicking \ properties but you cant do that with these types of shares or at least I don't know how to.
Fixed Just on the off chance it helps anyone else out I have managed to sort this... Originally I was sharing my projects folder through Parallels. I ended up killing this share and creating an SMB share on my Mac and giving my Win 7 Login read write access. My Win 7 VM and Mac are both members of the same domain. I then Mapped a drive to the SMB share through Win 7 and everything now builds. Paul.
Another tip. Actually, what I found worked for me (using XP Professional under Parallels with Webmatrix and Visual Web Developer 2010) is moving all of the project data to a folder straight off of the C:\ instead of using any of the "My Documents", etc. This instantly seemed to fix my problems without having to do any kind of share adjustments.
