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Error mounting VirtualBox shared folders in an Ubuntu guest
I have Ubuntu 10 as the guest OS on a Windows 7 machine. I have been trying to setup shares through VirtualBox, but nothing is working. First, I create the share in VirtualBox and point it to a ...
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Shared folders for all users
I have a /data folder (actually a partition) for all data that should be accessible by all users (in this case family members). We all have individual user accounts and are often all logged in at any ...
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How do I set up shared folders in a Windows XP virtualbox guest?
I have installed virtualbox-ose on ubuntu 11.04 and windows XP pro as the virtual machine.
Now I want to have a shared folder which can be accessed on both, the virtual machine, and my XP guest ...
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Share Ext4 Partition Over Network
I have an Ext4 partition (not auto-mounted) that I would like to share (entirely) in my home that contains Mac OSX, Windows and Linux machines (currently the most important is sharing with the Mac). ...
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Shared folder between Host and Guest in Virtualbox
Since Ubuntu 11.10 use a new kernel, it's very difficult to have a decent support for virtualization.
VirtualBox doesn't support guest additions for ubuntu 11.10, so I can't copy to and from my ...
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Truly share a folder with multiple users on a computer
I have a folder in my home directory that I want to be truly shared between all users on the same computer.
So, I set the permission to be 777. Now, all users can access it and can create, ,edit, ...
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How to access shared folder in Virtual Box
I followed the steps for sharing folders between windows 7 and Ubuntu in virtual box.
but the folder appear with X sign and give me the following message when open it "the folder conent could not be ...
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Sharing a folder on local network
I am new to Ubuntu and I installed the Ubuntu 11.10 on my system. I want to share a folder on my local network. How can I do that?
I want to share a folder by right click on it. when I do this then ...
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List of all shared folders
Is there possible to list all shared folders (with their physical locations) from command line?
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How do I share a folder on a NTFS partition over the network?
I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, and I want to share a folder on an automounted NTFS partition (/dev/sda4) over the network. The purpose of this network is to share files between computers, it contains mostly ...
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Android client can't access shared files from another account?
I have an account shared with me. Can see it on web, on Linux and Windows workstations, etc., but cannot see it on the android client.
Bug? or on purpose? or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks.
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Unable to share a folder between Windows 7 and Ubuntu (running in VMWare)
I have installed vmware toolbox in Ubuntu (guest OS). I tried to share a location from the settings of the virtual machine. But when I click Ok, the following error in thrown in the host (Win 7) OS.
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