Darren Watt » windows

Virtualbox, Ubuntu Host, Windows XP Guest

Darren — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:36:52 +0000

Ran into a problem after running a Windows XP guest in Virtualbox, where I was unable to access some of the shares on a Virtualbox Share, giving me the helpful message “the request is not supported”. This share was working fine previously, and only occurred after updated to Virtualbox 3.2.12.

After trawling forums I came across a post recommending turning off Offline Files.
From Explorer go to Tools, Options, Offline Files – and disable this feature.

Fixed it for me. Original post here.

Windows XP printing via Samba Share on Ubuntu: Access Denied

Darren — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:19:24 +0000

Ok, I keep running into this and trying to work out how to fix it. The setup is WinXP trying to print via a shared printer on Ubuntu server. In XP the printer shows as available but ‘unable to connect, access denied’.

To sort this:
edit the smb.conf file.
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

Find the [printers] section, add this to it:
use client driver = yes

Ctrl-x to save and exit then:
sudo service smbd restart

Should find everything works brilliantly now.

Installing SVN on Windows

Darren — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:12:54 +0000

There’s a handy site here on setting up SVN in Windows. Quite handy, if that’s what you’re trying to do. Only problem I had was removing blank spaces in the config, which was probably notepad evil.