How can I automount VirtualBox shares in a non-default mountpoint?

Question

I'm trying to automount VirtualBox Shared Folders in Ubuntu, the Sharenames are *_DRIVE, whereas * is D,E, etc. to then share them again via samba. If i

mount -t vboxsf D_DRIVE /media/shares/D 

it works, but that's of course only until the next reboot.

So then I tried to mount them via fstab, which mounts them (as I see in 'sudo mount') but the mountpoints remain empty. I tried adding vboxsfv and vboxadd in /etc/modules/ but to no avail. I do, however, see that the vboxservice auto-mounts all shares to /media/sf_*_DRIVE and they are available. It's no problem to double mount a share though since I can manually mount them and they both work.

While I could share all /media/sf_*_DRIVE's I'd like to just share /media/shares/ which contains all mountpoints instead.

Answer 1

You could do a kludge, and add the mount -t vboxsf D_DRIVE /media/shares/D to /etc/rc.local, as rc.local is run on each boot as root.

Answer 2

If you want to be able to get read & write permissions over that share, please do this

mount -t vboxsf -o uid=<your uid>,gid=<Your gid> D_DRIVE /media/shares/D

You can get your user id and group id from /etc/passwd file. This is how my user's entry looks like in my /etc/passwd file. First 1000 is my UID and the second 1000 is my GID.

thefourtheye:x:1000:1000:thefourtheye,,,:/home/thefourtheye:/bin/bash

If you dont want to execute the mount command each and every time you boot up, just add that command in /etc/rc.local file, as mentioned by @Yet Another User.