2.2.4-Vista[Host]-ubuntu[Guest]-Where is Guest share folder?

[JeZ-l-Lee]

2.2.4-Vista[Host]-ubuntu[Guest]-Where is Guest share folder?

Hi,

I Googled alot and could not find this information.
I setup the share folder in the Virtual Machine, but I do not know how to setup in ubuntu Guest.

Thanks...

JeZ+Lee
SLNTHERO@aol.com

[JeZ-l-Lee]

Prerequisites:
I will assume that you have already correctly installed VirtualBox guest additions for Linux and you also have already choosen the folder to share, user maual is giving perfet instructions for that and i cannot do better here.

Open your text editor and write the following text

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#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in
    start)
        /bin/mount -t vboxsf -o uid=username,gid=username winshare /mnt/winshare
        ;;
    stop)
         # No-op
         ;;
     *)
         echo "Usage: vboxshare [start|stop]" >&2
         exit 3
         ;;
esac

substitute username with your actual username and winshare with the name of your shared folder. Save the file as vboxshare and give it execute permissions with

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chmod +x vboxshare

From now on we need to be root so use

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su root

in debian or

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sudo su

in ubuntu, and start paying attention to what we do, it's gonna be dangerous .

Create the folder where we are going to mount, so

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mkdir /mnt/winshare

substitute winshare with the name of your shared folder.

Copy the script we did to the /etc/init.d/ directory with

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cp vboxshare /etc/init.d/

Register the script to be started at boot with

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update-rc.d vboxshare defaults

Ok we have finished just reboot and cross your fingers the folder sould be readable and writeble in /mnt/winshare or whatever the name you gave it.

If something goes wrong you can unregister the script we created as root with

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update-rc.d -f  vboxshare remove