Share windows folders to Mac not working

Hello,

I've been using parallels for a while and upgraded 3.0 for the ability to share windows folders/disks from a running VM to the host Mac OS X environment. It works great on my wife's MBP. Her machine is set with a boot camp partition and when the VM is running, the C: drive shows up on the desktop. I have the identical config on my MacBook and the C: drive doesn't show up. The only difference between the two machines is that I installed Parallels 3 on hers, while mine was upgraded from 2.5. If anyone can provide help, I'd really appreciate it.

Below are the configs for the two machines

Host OS: 10.4.10
Parallels: 3.0.4128 (and other builds all the way up to 5060)
Guest OS: Windows XP SP2 with all patches
Networking: Shared networking
Windows Firewall: On
Mac OS X Firewall: On

Thanks

 

Try this:
Shut down your VM (if running)
In the Parallels Menu, click "Edit/Virtual Machine"
Click on "Shared Folders"
Make sure there is a check mark by "All Windows Disks" and "Mount Virtual Disks on Mac Desktop"

 

Yup, both are checked on the VM.

 

Would file system type have anything to do with it?

Does it make a difference if the filesystem is NTFS or FAT32 in parallels' ability to mount it to guest os?

Thanks

 

No, mac can read ntfs disk's...

 

>>> Message has been deleted by the user <<<