Shared folders nightmare - unusable.

Ahh, yes of course. Not quite so promising then, although I'm not sure the IP address for .psf makes sense. It seems to bear no relation to any other addresses in my setup, so I changed it the Parallels NAT address in Mac Network Prefs. This may have made things worse as I now can't get to my NAS drive from windoze??

 

in Finder go to Folder /etc
You will see hosts file

 

We're going round in circles....
If I can just summarise the problem again:
Launch XP under Parallels Desktop V3. Double click My Computer - empty window appears, and seems to have hung. Then after 20+ seconds the icons appear. Then things are ok for a while. Then, in any application, if you try to open/access a file on a .psf (ie. on the Mac OS drive) you will often have the 20+ second delay. Once accessed it will be ok for a while. It's as if windoze has to go looking for this drive and, even after finding it, forgets where it was.

Does anyone else have this type of delay?

 

Firewall on Windows side with heuristic prediction enabled?

 

Fixed by removing .psf entry in hosts file

To fix this problem I removed the following line from C:\WINDOWS\System23\drivers\etc\hosts:

127.0.0.1 .psf

Access to files on shared folders is very fast now.