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need help changing Store Folder to network share

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 03/16/2008
From: ginahoy
Message:

I have WinME running in Virtual PC on an XP machine. I'd like to have both
instances of OE share a single Message Store Folder. From what I gather, the
only connection between Guest and Host OS is though a network share. For
example, if I want to copy or move files from WinME to XP, I just drag them
to the appropriate XP folder via network share.

If someone has experience with setting up a common OE Store Folder over a
network, I'd appreciate your help because it's not working as expected.
Here's what I did:

I created a network share for the XP/OE Store Folder and then changed the
WinME Store Folder to point to it. Although the WinME OE seems happy with the
network Store Folder, my existing messages and folders don't show up. With
all OE's quirks, this didn't surprise me and I figure there's probably a
simple fix.

To troubleshoot, I created a new folder "test" in the WinME OE and put a
message in the folder. For reasons I can't fathom, text.dbx doesn't show up
in the XP Store Folder. I searched both drives for test.dbx and it doesn't
seem to exist anywhere!! Explorer Search is set to find hidden files, and I
even un-hid the folders just to make sure.

Further testing showed I can assign the Store Folder to a location on the
virtual machine and all the .dbx files are visible in the new location
including text.dbx. But when I change the Store Folder back to the XP Store
Folder via network share, test.dbx remains invisible.

I know a common Store Folder can be implemented in a dual-boot scenario, but
in that case, a network share is not required. So I'm not sure if my problem
is related to using a network share, or somehow related to how virtual
machines work.

Can anyone explain this behavior, or otherwise tell me how to use a common
Store Folder for both machines?

Thanks
David

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