I have put the folder (winshare), it has some data in it, that I need under Virtual Machine---Settings---Shared Folders---Machine Folders, and in Ubuntu I have created the directory ~/media/winshare. The guest additions have been installed and I ran the command, sudo mount -t vboxsf winshare /media/winshare , from there the command executes just fine, no errors, but when I move into ~/media/winshare the data under my windows winshare file does not show up in ubuntu. Why is this? Thanks for the help!
1 Answer
By default VirtualBox Shared Folders are only accessible to members of the vboxsf
group. To add your user to the vboxsf group in Ubuntu do:
sudo adduser $(whoami) vboxsf
vboxsf
group in Ubuntu? What is the output ofls -al ~
andls -al ~/media/winshare
andls -al /media
? Are you confusing~/media
and not/media
(/media
is the default mount point)?vboxsf
group?