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This issue was discussed in other topics but I could not find an answer to this specific question.

I run a Scientific Linux 5 guest on a WinXP host.

When my Linux guest boots, I want to automatically mount a shared folder from the host.

I understand that inserting a line in /etc/fstab does not work as the VirtualBox Guest Additions modules have not been loaded yet.

I then tried to insert an explicit mount command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, i.e.
but this does not work, which is strange because at this point the vboxadd init script has already been executed and the very same command does work when I issue it interactively from the root account.

Now comes the interesting point: if in rc.local I replace the standard mount command with
everything works.

Could someone please explain this behaviour?

Thanks, E.

I have seen something similar and my solution was to make the names for directory and share differ.
So rename your share (in the gui) to:
Winhome
and in fstab use:
Winhome /mnt/winhome vboxfs defaults 0 0
I think that should work.

mount -t vboxFS winhome /mnt/winhome
But
mount -t vboxSF winhome /mnt/winhome

I uppercased the typo..