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Thanks Perryg

I built another machine for Ubuntu 8.1 and started with the sharing from scratch and it worked! I feel much better about it now.

Maybe it was something with Kubuntu? It is the latest version which may have caused a problem. I will start again from scratch with Kubuntu.

Perryg wrote:Then put the following in your fstab. and change the uid and gid to match yours.

Shared /mnt/Shared vboxsf defaults,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

Sorry for the confusion, I'm just working through this now without any success. Should I also change /mnt/Shared to the path I'm using (which is just /mnt/share)?

@platz,
The instructions given were for user=WilPro
The Shared and the /mnt/Shared need to match your install.
Replace Shared with the name you actually gave the share and the /mnt/Shared to the actual mount point you created.
Remember that spaces and special characters are not allowed in the share name.

Thanks, that makes sense. I'm still mounting with the same permissions and not able to set them in the file browser, either.

I have Windows 7 as host, and Ubuntu as guest. I'm having issues file sharing, I installed guest additions, DKMS(or something like that) and set it up through the virtualbox program. I can find the file under /media/sf_blah but it says I don't have permissions. Am I missing a step? Every time I use code to mount I have permissions error, protocol error, or something else.

(if this has already be covered, I has searched and searched and couldn't find it, so sorry)

user name in the vboxsf group on the guest?

the same as my host username... you're just talking about the username in Ubuntu right?

the guests vboxsf group should have you guests login name in it.
type id in a terminal and see. If it isn't then you need to put it in.

it gave me the same name as my login id, I also added that permission for folder sharing within windows, (I don't know if that matters, but I don't think it can hurt)

when I click on the folder it doesn't give me any login options, it just says "you do not have the permissions to view this folder". I have tried this through the terminanal using sudo, and it didn't work either.

1) what are you actually sharing
2) are we talking about the VBox shared folder or a network share.

I am sharing a downloads folder on my Windows 7 machine to the ubuntu virutal machine, so a vbox shared folder

Read Chapter 4.3 Shared folders in your VirtualBox users manual very carefully.
Also Windows 7 uses symlinks to the folders in your user space. You must make sure that you are sharing a real folder or you will have problems.
I usually create a separate folder (outside the user space and make it public) just for this purpose as Windows 7 is really finicky about sharing with anything not Windows.

got it to work by manually mounting, I don't know why auto mounting isn't working... anyway the problem was I kept referring the sharename as sf_xxxxx, instead of just xxx