once more shared folder

[dkraft]

Hi,

Host: Windows Vista
Guest: Fedora7

I still cannot copy from Fedora to Vista
I want to copy to folder Users/Public/Downloads which is Downloads as a shared
folder
with properties co-owner for Everyone (I hope this means writable for Everyone)
I mount my shared folder to /mnt/share
which before mounting looks like
drwxrwxrwx 2 dkraft dkraft 4096 2007-08-29 13:14 share
but after mounting with
/bin/mount -t vboxsf -o uid=dkraft,gid=dkraft Downloads /mnt/share
its reads as
dr-xr-xr-x 1 dkraft dkraft 24576 2007-10-20 11:44 share
that means it is no more writable, and when I try
dkraft@F7/home/dkraft> cp 01.wav /mnt/share/
I get
cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/share/01.wav': Permission denied

This is very annoying! Can anybody (perhaps a developer of VBox) help?

Thanks for your patience
Dieter

[nextekcarl]

I think I have the same problem as you (win XP as host, Kubuntu 7.10 as guest) and while I don't have the answer (that's why I am here actually) I do have a work around that may work for you. In your Windows Host, create a file (doesn't matter what type, I right click and select "create a text file") and name it exactly what you want the file to be called (with the extension of the file type you want, not txt unless you just want a text file) and then go back into the guest OS and save the file, selecting "override" when it asks you. Not a great solution, but it works until someone comes up with a better option. In the guest the permissions seem set up in such a way you can't create new files, but you can modify pre-existing ones.

[dkraft]

Curiously enough, this works.
Therefore developers of virtualbox
if you ever observe this forum
tell us what is happening
and prepare a solution for
1.5.4 soon to come
Dieter

PS: Thanks for the workaround

[Dieter Manstein]

Curiously enough, this works.
Therefore developers of virtualbox
if you ever observe this forum
tell us what is happening
and prepare a solution for
1.5.4 soon to come
Dieter

PS: Thanks for the workaround

Why didn't you not added 'rw' to the command:

/bin/mount -t vboxsf -o uid=dkraft,gid=dkraft Downloads /mnt/share?

like

/bin/mount -t vboxsf -o uid=dkraft,gid=dkraft,rw Downloads /mnt/share