Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#10748 closed defect (invalid)
Shared folder not accessible from app running as administrator
| Reported by: | benjaminhill | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | shared folders | Version: | VirtualBox 4.1.18 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
... which is very strange, because it used to be the opposite, where you could only access a shared drive when running as administrator!
I noticed this when running CloneSpy in administrator mode, and confirmed it through launching two CMD prompts. The one running as administrator (which I was sure of because the cmd started in C:\Windows\system32) can NOT change to the e: drive, where the one NOT running as administrator CAN change to the e: drive!
Totally bizarre.
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You forgot to mention which version of Windows is that. I suppose it is a Vista or 7.
This behavior is expected on Windows, because network drives are mapped for a particular user. This is by design on Windows. See the corresponding Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2019185
We will not implement any workarounds for this Windows feature.