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I've completed 90% of this walkthrough:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/SharedFolders#Getting_VBoxLinuxAdditions.iso

... and I'm currently in the " Prepare Guest " section. Where this is giving me problems:

sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 $sharename /mnt/$sharename \

the " -t " option is giving me issues as per this error message when running the full set of commands:

mkdir invalid option --t

Try ' mkdir --help ' for more information.

So! If I've already configured the share on the host ... and I'm attempting to mount a local dir on the GUEST system for the HOST to view

... What should I be doing differently here?

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  • Where does the command mkdir come in? For shared folders see these questions: askubuntu.com/questions/30396/… askubuntu.com/questions/52328/…
    – Takkat
    Sep 6, 2012 at 6:25
  • Thats kind of what is weird to me ... clearly something is incorrect with the commands listed on the page ... however I'm not sure what
    – carl crott
    Sep 6, 2012 at 16:35
  • Also it seems that this is sharing from the HOST to the GUEST ... I need the HOST to be able to R/W on the GUEST VM
    – carl crott
    Sep 6, 2012 at 16:49

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Setting up shared folder can be done from Virtual Box as it was further elaborated in answers to these question:

However because it is so much easier to set up (and they safer in addition) I usually share folders to and from a virtual machine using basic network shares from the Nautilus right click "Sharing Options" menu. These can be set up anytime and will immediately be accessible from the "Browse Network" entry in Nautilus.

After right click on a directory from your HOME for Sharing Options we may be asked to download samba packages - do so. Then we tick the Share this folder box and give the needed permissions for this share to enable sharing over the network.

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We may have to restart our session for changes to take effect. After having defined our shared directory we can browse it using Nautilus Browse Network where our share appears in the Windows Network/WORKGROUP/ directory.

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Fo ease of use I have set my network adapter to bridged in the Virtual Box Manager.

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  • So I've actually attempted to share via the right click option to no avail. I've run "gksudo nautilus" and enabled the sharing of the /usr/local/ dir with all permissions ... however I'm unable to open that up via the HOST machine. It should be accessible from within nautilus under the "Network" icon right?
    – carl crott
    Sep 6, 2012 at 17:36
  • For security we should only share directories in our HOME. Sharing system directories e.g. in /usr/.. may lead to unwanted side effects or may even break your system. See edit for shots.
    – Takkat
    Sep 6, 2012 at 18:31
  • 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: failed to add share bety. Error was Operation not permitted .... is the error im getting ... and this is between two ubuntu installations
    – carl crott
    Sep 6, 2012 at 18:34
  • You may need to make yourself member of the groups sambashare and shareaccess.
    – Takkat
    Sep 6, 2012 at 18:41

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