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I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed in my Host Machine and it has VirtualBox. I have Guest Machine wich runs Ubuntu 10.10.

I have NetBeans installed in Host Machine and need to open my project files which are located in Guest Machine. The reason I need it is because in my working place I have not access to install any applications, that is why I have Guest Machine where I have Web Server installed on it and also I have one web application that I am developing.

I need to open that web application files from Guest Machine's Netbeans in order to modify/create new files for my web application.

I have configured SSH server of Guest Machine and added port redirection in the VirtualBox so that now I can connect to it from Host Machine. But I could not find any way to open those files from Netbeans.

Could anybody give me advice about how can I do that please?

UPDATE

I forgot to say that I don't want to use SharedFolders.

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There's a much easier way. Just store your project in a shared folder. Set up shared folders using these instructions and keep your source code there. Now you can access the files in Ubuntu using any method you want.

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try looking into shared folders in vbox. It would basically allow you to share files without the need for samba/ssh/ftp.

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If I understand if right ssh is working

You can navigate to any folder in the Guest Machine with Nautilus (press CTRL+L and type ssh:/ip/folder/folder in the address bar) or connect to it selecting "Connect to server" from the file menu.

After doing that the remote filesystem will be mounted under ~/.gvfs. You should be able to open any file from there from any program that can access the local filesystem.

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  • You are right. I have configured SSH and now I can connect to Guest Machine through SSH and list files in Nautilus. But didn't find any way to open those files in NetBeans. In addition ~/.gvfs is empty in my case? What should it contain?
    – Bakhtiyor
    Nov 26, 2010 at 16:45
  • It should contain a directory called "sftp in x.x.x.x" where x.x.x.x is the IP of the host machine. If you can browse your files from Nautilus, it must had mounted the filesystem somewhere.
    – Javier Rivera
    Nov 26, 2010 at 17:32
  • Are you using nautilus as root?
    – Javier Rivera
    Nov 26, 2010 at 17:33
  • I don't have root access in the Host Machine. That is the MAIN reason I am complicating my work. I can neither install any application nor I am sudoer user.
    – Bakhtiyor
    Nov 26, 2010 at 17:46
  • If you type mount in a terminal, is gvfs-fuse-daemon in the mounted filesystems list?
    – Javier Rivera
    Nov 26, 2010 at 18:00
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  • go to your netbeans project and click on "properties"
  • go to "Run configuration" and fill in all your project + virtualbox details
  • make sure when you press "test connection", you get a message saying "connection succeeded"
  • now, go to your virtualbox terminal and make sure you change ownership permissions for that folder to include your username..... use the following command:

sudo chown -R your-username:current-folder-owner /path/to/project/root

  • you should be able to save remotely to your virtualbox at this point :)
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