Shared folders not accessible after restart

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I am running Opensolaris on a Windows Vista Host. Virtualbox 3.1.2
In Virtualbox I created two shared folders.
One for the files I use in Windows
And one for the external hard drive.
After mounting them everything was working fine and I could save files on the external hard drive and on the Desktop of Windows.
But after restarting I can not access the shared folders anymore.
When I try to mount them the same way I did it the first time I get the following error:


[quote]ueli@Home:~$ pfexec mount -F vboxfs I_DRIVE /export/home/ueli/Desktop/Iomega
mount:I_DRIVE: Invalid argument
ueli@Home:~$ pfexec mount -F vboxfs Admin /export/home/ueli/Desktop/Windows
mount:Admin: Invalid argument
ueli@Home:~$

Can anyone explain why I cannot acces the files after a restart, and why an attempt to mount them again fails?

Regards.

[Perryg]

Change the share names and mounts to not have caps, spaces, or characters and see if that works.

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Thanks for the advice.
I changed all the filenames.
Now it works most of the times if I mount the files straight after reboot,
Sometimes it fails if I first open Opera.
Do I have to mount the shared folders every time after booting the system or is there a way to configure it so that it stays mounted after a reboot?

Best Regards

[Perryg]

http://blogs.sun.com/andreashuber/entry ... red_folder

Google is your friend

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Thanks for the advice.
I tried to add a line to the vfstab file but if I enter the mountpoint /export/home/ueli/desktop/documents
the system hangs at startup.
If I enter /mnt/documents it works.
Is there a limitation on what I can mount at startup?

Best Regards

[Perryg]

Does /export/home/ueli/desktop/documents exist? This is a non-normal setting but if you set it up properly and set the permissions right it should work.
Although my preference is to use /mnt/<mount point> old school.

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You mean I should rather use /mnt/documents and make a link on the Desktop if I want it there?
What permission is needed for mouting at startup?

Best Regards

[Perryg]

Is this the exact way you typed it? /export/home/ueli/desktop/documents
It is case sensitive and documents should be Documents or at least it is in mine.

[Perryg]

Its still not going to work though
Solaris processes vfstab BEFORE it completes the ZFS mount of my home directory in /export/home which makes solaris stop booting and you will need to edit it. So use the /mnt and add that to the vfstab and it should work.

Edit: create a symlink to this from your desktop folder (in terminal ln -s <full path to share mount>) if you want it to show on the desktop.

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Everything is Working now.
I created a folder /mnt/documents
Then I made an entry in vfstab
"documents - /mnt/documents vboxfs - yes -"
and after that I created a link to the desktop.
Thanks a lot.

Regards