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I'm new to VB. I'm working on a Mac OS host and an Oracle Linux guest. I think I've installed guest additions properly. I created a new folder on my Mac host (desktop/share) and have copied a file into this directory. When I created the shared folder, I set it to Auto Mount. When I log into the linux guest, I'm having trouble finding the shared folder and accessing the files that are in it. My intention is to download Oracle 11g in the linux guest. Any help you can provide is much appreciated.

Thanks for the link. I went back through this again and also read some other posts out there. I was able to select the "Install Guest Additions" link in the Devices menu. In the VirtualBox Manager, I see that the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso is attached to the IDE Controller with the CD/DVD Drive set to IDE Secondary. The fact that I can see this leads me to believe that the file was mounted. I think this is the step that I haven't completed;

Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and execute as root:

sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

I changed my directory to /media and then ran the command in the user guide. The result is "No such file or directory". I don't know where the CD-ROM drive is mounted and it looks like I haven't successfully installed the guest additions yet. Any help would be much appreciated.

This should help with the guest additions Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions
As for the auto-mount shared folders you must put your user name in the *guest vboxsf group. However I have seen this have permission issues and suggest that you read how to manually mount the shared folders and us the /etc/rc.local to make them permanent Linux guest shared folders