10.4: Share OS X home folder with Parallels, revisited

Nov 09, '06 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: Jazz-e

I read a previous hint (which basically linked to this article) that showed how to share your OS X home folder with Windows under Parallels Desktop. One thing I don't like very much about that solution is that you don't have access to this drive when you're not connected to a network. I found an easy way to share your home folder without making it public on the network.

Go into Shared folders in Parallels and add a folder. By default, it will assign your home folder. Call it whatever you like (I called mine Mac Drive). Then start up Windows. Open any folder in Windows and go to Tools -> Map Network Drive. Select a Drive letter (I kept mine Z:). Select Browse from the tab on the right. Select Network: Parallel Shared Folder and expand \.Psf. Under that, you should see the folder you just added (Mac Drive). Hit Finish, and you should have your drive mapped as Z as a network drive.

Now go to the Start menu, right click on My Documents and type Z:Documents, hit Apply, and it will ask you if you want to move any files from your Documents folder to the new location -- just say yes, and you're all done.

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