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Cannot mkfifo: Operation not permitted

Posted: 12. Sep 2012, 19:53
by Babu
Hi All,
I am running Fedora13 guest on Windows7 host and shared a folder from host to guest and running tar command on guest then it is giving problem

tar: ./dev/initctl: Cannot mkfifo: Operation not permitted

I enabled symlinks also to shared folder using
VBoxManage setextradata Fedora13 VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/Temp 1

is there anything that I need to enable to gust for permissions?

Thanks,
Babu