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Using Virtualbox Version 5.1.26 r117224 on Host Windows 7 and Guest Ubuntu 16.04 I'm stuck trying to share host folder. I already installed Virtualbox guest additions and performed a restart.

For example I want to share the directory Downloads.

My fstab:

Downloads                 /mnt/host/sf_Downloads vboxsf  uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

ls -la gives,

dr-xr-xr-x  1 bob bob    8192 sept. 11 10:01 Downloads

id gives,

uid=1000(bob) gid=1000(bob) groups=1000(bob),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),113(lpadmin),128(sambashare),999(vboxsf)

How can I change the permission of the folder to drwxrwxr-x?

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  • Please which is the host here, windows or ubuntu, I suspect Ubuntu is guest in any case do you have the Virtualbox guest additions installed and did you restart Ubuntu guest after adding the share folder? Sep 11, 2017 at 10:16
  • Yes you are right. Host: windows 7 and Guest: Ubuntu 16.04. Yes I installed Virtualbox guest additions. Yes I restarted several time trying various things. Thanks
    – ucsky
    Sep 11, 2017 at 10:53

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