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Why do I have only incoming traffic when copying from network source to network destination?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 2026315 views
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Problem

I have a VirtualBox VM that is located on a network share of my NAS. When I copy something from the VM's disk onto another of the NAS' network shares (so the data is visible outside the VM), the Windows 7 Task Manager shows only incoming network traffic (yellow graph). It's as if the data was only …

Error Output

+-NAS--------+      +-Win7 PC (VM Host)-+
| Share1(VM)-|>---->|-+                 |
|            |      | |                 |
| Share2 <---|<----<|-+…

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If you are logged into the Win7 PC and copy from Share1 to Share2 (and Share2 is also a VM) then that is what I would expect as well. If Share2 is not a VM, but just a share hosted on Win7, then I see no need for there to be outgoing network traffic…

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