/sbin/mount.vboxsf mouning failed with error: no such device

[highjo]

Hello
i'm new to this forum but i've been a occasional vbox user. I had windows 7 host and ubuntu 9.10 guest which works fine with vboxadditions installed, share folder and everything perfect.
Now for some simulations i needed to have the ubuntu server 10.04 intall with x-window. what i did and so far so good.

now the problem i'm having now is that for the server i seem not to be able to mount a share folder.following the same process :

-install dkms
-update
-upgrade
-mount the vboxadditions iso in the host virtual drive and have it mounted in the guest as well
-install vboxadditions (sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run)
-restart the guest os
- created ubuntu_share folder under /media/ubuntu_share

any time i'm trying to mount the folder ubuntu_share on my drive D (D:/Ubuntu_Share) with this command :

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mount -t vboxsf ubuntu_share /media/ubuntu_share

i always get :

/sbin/mount.vboxsf mouning failed with error: no such device

locate mount.vboxsf output this:
/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-3.2.6/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf
/sbin/mount.vboxsf

is there any problem with ubuntu server 10.04? or i'm just missing the mark somewhere?
thanks for reading this and helping me out.

[Sasquatch]

Leave out any special characters from the name and mount point and just start with the basics. Call the shared folder 'share' and the mount point 'host'. Now mount it with the usual command:

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sudo mount -t vboxsf share /media/host

If this works, it means that the underscores in the name just isn't playing nice. Another thing that doesn't always work is when the shared folder name and the mount point have the same name.

More information can be read in my Howto: Use Shared Folders.