virtualbox fans?

[Derek Broughton]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> I was afraid of that. Just when I told myself I can live with that as
> long as it has the "shared folders" feature, that doesn't seem to work!
> 

The shared folder feature isn't SMB networking, though.  It's just exposing
particular folders on the host to the client.

To have your client visible on the LAN, it needs to be using "Host"
networking (which then needs to be bridged via your host's network
interface).

Now, everybody says that Host networking can't work via a bridge on a wifi
IF.  That makes no sense to me, and I wish someone would explain it.  In
any case, unless your client is getting a DHCP address from the LAN's DHCP
server, you probably won't be able to address it by name, though you may be
able to address it by IP.
-- 
derek