id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 942 Writing to shared folders through WinXP Pro Virtual Machine mikebeecham "Hi all, I've recently installed VB onto my Linux Ubuntu 7.10 desktop...all is great with it, I have Windows XP SP2 running fine, and have also given it access to the shared folders on my secondary IDE hard drive. Now, within the XP Virtual Machine, I can see and access all files within those shared folders, but I cannot write back to them...it tells me that either the disk is write-protected, or I do not have permissions to do so. Everything on my linux desktop is fine, so I'm not sure it's a pure permission issue. Many thanks for your help. Mike" defect closed shared folders VirtualBox 1.5.2 worksforme other other