id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 2285 Shared netwok folder that is partly cached by windows casue errors Johan Wilfer "In Windows Vista (and XP I think) there is a feature that allows you to ""work offline"" and keep a network folder synchronized with a cache on the computer. If you create a share in Virtualbox for \netdisk\data --> data If the \netdisk is connected you will see the following when you do a ls -la {{{ root@sirius:/media/data# ls -la total 89029 drwxrwxrwx 1 johan johan 0 2008-09-20 15:24 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-09-20 15:11 .. drwxrwxrwx 1 johan johan 0 2008-09-18 00:05 documents -rw-rw-rw- 1 johan johan 729288704 2008-09-03 09:11 intrepid-desktop-i386.iso drwxrwxrwx 1 johan johan 0 2008-08-14 23:14 .lpd drwxrwxrwx 1 johan johan 0 2008-09-06 15:07 multimedia drwxrwxrwx 1 johan johan 0 2008-08-17 01:28 .systemfile }}} However if you disconnect \netdisk the cache will be used, I my case only documents and multimedia is cached so you will ha this: {{{ johan@sirius:/media/data$ ls -la ls: cannot access .lpd: Protocol error ls: cannot access .systemfile: Protocol error ls: cannot access intrepid-desktop-i386.iso: Protocol error total 1 drwxrwxrwx 1 johan johan 4096 2008-09-18 00:05 documents ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? intrepid-desktop-i386.iso ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .lpd drwxrwxrwx 1 johan johan 4096 2008-09-06 15:07 multimedia ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? .systemfile }}} I guess the ???????? indicates that the folder is currently inaccessible. However the Protocol error's make Nautilus to not display any of the contents in the folder. A nice feature would also be to display this status (inaccessible) in Nautilus. I use Ubuntu 7.04 " defect closed shared folders VirtualBox 2.0.2 obsolete windows folder syncronisation Linux Windows