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I am unable to access the shared folder in the virtual machine. I am on Windows 10 with the VirtualBox version 6.1.36 r152435 and Ubuntu 22.04. The Guest Additions and the VirtualBox version are the latest versions and are the same. The user has been added to the vboxsf group. But the machine is still unable to access the shared folder. I have attached logfile. Are there any other steps that I am missing? Thanks.

allupavras wrote:Are there any other steps that I am missing?

Somebody has to mount the shared folder inside the guest OS. You configured the VM not to mount it automatically, but you also didn't tell how you manually tried to mount it instead ... did you read 4.3. Shared Folders?

Here is an example of the settings for a shared folder I recently created for a Debian 11.4 (Bullseye) VM. It works very reliably and simply with the mount point pinned in the file manager. Naming the mount point sf_<sharename> is a convention I followed.

mpack wrote:Naming the mount point sf_<sharename> is a convention I followed.

Which is more than a convention: giving them the *same* name has been broken for months, which sf_<sharename> auto-avoids.

mpack wrote:Here is an example of the settings for a shared folder I recently created for a Debian 11.4 (Bullseye) VM. It works very reliably and simply with the mount point pinned in the file manager. Naming the mount point sf_<sharename> is a convention I followed.

Oops, I turned off the mount before the post. Forgot to turn it back on. I tried a few different paths for the mount point. I have had the mount specified to /mnt/<sharename> directory before. Having it point to /media/sf_<sharename> is what seems to have fixed it. Thank you!

Thanks for reporting back.