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Cannot run setups from a vboxsvr mapped network drive on Windows within VirtualBox

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Mar 15, 20266135 views
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Problem

I'm trying to run an application setup by double-clicking the setup.exe from within Windows Explorer. The file is located on a mapped network drive, and I'm using Windows 7. This results in the following error message: The workaround I found is to copy the installer to the main hard drive (c:) and …

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The specified path does not exist. Check the path, and then try again.

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Fix for: Cannot run setups from a vboxsvr mapped network drive on Windows within VirtualBox

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Yes I have faced the same problem like every one. The most easy way to overcome this problem is to log in as an Administrator in the guest Windows OS. Here's a tutorial for enabling Administrator account in Windows 7 Another option is to disable the…

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