Unable to list content of SharedFolder - terminal crashes

[monit0r]

Hi,

I have tried this twice now, I have freshly installed Centos 5.5 with Guest Additions successfully and then mounted the shared folder I specified in VirtualBox. Any time I attempt to access the shared folder directory in my case /mnt/vshare, I am unable to access or even list the content of the shared folder. Instead terminal hangs and eventually gets killed or I have to ctrl-c to exit.

Command I use:

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mount -t vboxsf SharedFolder /mnt/vshare

So it mounts successfully without error as confimed by the mount command:

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SharedFolder on /mnt/vshare/ type vboxsf (rw)

A snippet of my host vbox.log shows

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01:09:05.308 SharedFolders host service: connected, u32ClientID = 3
01:10:20.078 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=1ef64000 w=1024 h=768 bpp=32 cbLine=0x1000
01:10:20.078 VBVA: Enabled.
01:10:21.210 Guest requests mouse pointer integration
01:10:21.983 Guest Additions capability report: (0x5) seamless: yes, hostWindowMapping: no, graphics: yes
01:12:00.137 SharedFolders host service: request to map folder SharedFolder
01:12:00.138 SharedFolders host service: map operation result VINF_SUCCESS.
01:12:00.138     Mapped to handle 0.
01:15:05.946 Guest disables mouse pointer integration
01:15:05.951 Guest Additions capability report: (0x4) seamless: no, hostWindowMapping: no, graphics: yes
01:15:06.248 VBVA: Disabled.
01:15:06.265 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0
01:15:06.285 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=1ef64000 w=640 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x280
01:15:06.489 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, pvVRAM=00000000 w=720 h=400 bpp=0 cbLine=0x0
01:16:10.823 SharedFolders host service: request to unmap folder handle 0
01:16:10.823 SharedFolders host service: unmap operation result VINF_SUCCESS.

I couldnt figure this out, so decided to install a different OS (openSUSE 11.2) but after installing updates and GuestAdditions, I mount the shared folder 'cd' into it and do a simple 'ls' which again hangs the terminal session and then gets killed after about 15mins.
I have a windows 7 VM with GuestAdditions and shared folder working, so not sure where I should be looking to fix my problem..

Btw, I have also tried this as root (i know i shouldn't), just to see if this is a permissions thing

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.. I just want to access my shared folder where Ive place my Oracle 11g binaries..

EDIT: I should also add that I tried to add vboxsf as a group, but it didnt exist so I created it and assigned to user, but still couldnt list shared folder. I then remembered that as Im running vb 3.0.12_52665 that from memory I may have had to create a group called vboxusers previously which i did also, but that didnt work either. Help?

Thanks!

I'm running Mac OSX 10.4.11(Tiger)
VitrualBox 3.0.12 (the last Tiger supported release, i think)
Guests: Centos 5.5, openSUSE 11.2