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Subject:    Re: [vbox-users] Windows networking stopped working after upgrade
From:       "andreas.l () sun ! com" <Andreas ! L () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2008-06-30 7:52:39
Message-ID: 486890C7.2000403 () sun ! com
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Hi Jochen,

so you upgraded the Windows guest additions from 1.6.0 to 1.6.2 if I 
understood you correctly. I'll try to reproduce this behavior, thanks 
for your report.

-Andreas.



Jochen Roderburg wrote:
> Situation:
> VirtualBox on a Linux host, Windows 2000 guest, host interface networking.
>
> First a little history: After trying upgrade to VBox 1.6.0 a while ago  
> the networking did not work at all. Searching in the net brought the  
> result, that this was an already known regression in that version  
> which was to be corrected in the next version. So I "downgraded" again  
> to the last working 1.5.x version and waited for that "next" version.  
> Actually I "forgot" to also downgrade the Windows Guest Additons to  
> that version, so I had a mixed, but working Vbox 1.5.x installation  
> with Guest Additions 1.6.0 in the Windows VM.
>
> The awaited next version came then out as 1.6.2 and after installing  
> it on the Linux host the networking in the Windows VM really worked  
> again. As final touch I upgraded also the Guest Additions to 1.6.2 and  
> after that the Windows networking was not working anymore. The stored  
> connections to SMB shares did not work, I could not make new  
> connections, in fact, the Windows Network had disappeared completely  
> from the Network Neighborhood. And this situation was really  
> persistent now, downgrading to various older versions of VBox and/or  
> Guest Additions did not help this time. I finally managed to get rid  
> of the problem by completely deinstalling and reinstalling the Windows  
> Network Client/Server components on the Windows system.
>
> Finally a little accidently I found also something in the Windows  
> Registry which I think was/is the cause for the problem:
> There are keys
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order\ProviderOrder and  
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\HwOrder\ProviderOrder
> which in the VM contain now "LanmanWorkstation,VBoxSF,manWorkstation"
> After the 1.6.2 Guest Additions installation these keys were missing  
> the LanmanWorkstation part and I suspect that the update process made  
> a little error here.
>
> Jochen Roderburg
> ZAIK/RRZK
> University of Cologne
> Robert-Koch-Str. 10                    Tel.:   +49-221/478-7024
> D-50931 Koeln                          E-Mail: Roderburg@Uni-Koeln.DE
> Germany
>
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