Shared Folders

I want to transfer files between Windows and Mac and have set up a shared folder as instructed. Although I can find it in the parallels VM I cannot find it on my Mac desktop. Any help would be much appreciated.
Many thanks.

 

.
The shared folders in your xp VM will point to an actual folder on OS X.
.

 

Yes, If you follow the instructions for creating shared folders carefully, you will notice that you start with a folder in OS/X. On my computer, I created a folder in my OSX Documents Folders that I called "Shared Folders with Windows XP".

Then you go through the procedure in parallels to point to the folder ou created.

 

i want to put jpg files into a folder on my mac OS so that I can open them in the guest os, xp. where do i navigate to in the host os in order to share these particualr files?? in other words, i can see the shared folder in the vm, but not on my mac.

ps i tried to follow the instructions about pointing to a folder on my mac, but i can't even click on the "edit" button to do so...it's dead.

 

.
You need to use Parallels Configuration to allocate shared folders.
.

 

There are better solutions (that work faster for me) then shared folders (PSF.)

I run OS X / XP all day at work everyday and have to connect to a company domain. I've found a way to get both OS X and XP to connect & register on the Windows 2003 Server network domain. In doing so, I've also been able to map a network drive in Windows to OS X. Now this doesn't solve the issue of OS X to Windows file transfers (well, you can do it over the domain; but if you're not on the domain you can't, such as at home.) So for that, I've come to love the drag & drop of the new beta.

So I've got two monitors going, OS X / XP, both operating systems on the company domain, both sharing their entire hard drives, with XP having a mapped network drive to my OS X side (this is done by setting up Windows Sharing in OS X, assigning a name in that Sharing preference pane, and then in Windows you install Bonjour for Windows from Apple. Now in Windows you can access your Windows Share from OS X with an address through explorer like so: \\themoon.local\alex where "themoon" is the name i specified in the Sharing prefPane, .local is the loopback connection for internally connected computers, and \alex is the folder I have shared (my home folder.)

In order to get the domain thing working, I had to manually specify the internal domain DNS server in OS X (which windows found automatically afterwards through Shared Networking.. wasn't expecting that, but it sure is nice!)