time/date overwritten when copying files to shared folder

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Tom0815
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time/date overwritten when copying files to shared folder

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Hi there,
I am running Ubuntu 7.10 on an Windows XP host via Virtualbox 1.5.4, and I have created a permanent shared folder by adding

[folder_name] [folder_location] vboxsf rw,gid=1000,uid=1000,auto 0 0

to /etc/fstab. The folder does mount automatically when booting the guest
system. Also, read and write are "working" on both sides.
However, when copying under Ubuntu something into the shared folder,
the date/time stamp is overwritten and set to the current date/time.
This is quite a nuisance, because I want to synchronize the folder contents between different machines.

Any suggestions welcome
Tom
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