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That pretty much sums up the problem: when I try to open a shared folder, I get an error "The specified folder does not exist or was not readable."

My system: host: mac os x 10.6.8. VB 4.2.6. Guest: Linux Mint 13 w/KDE. I've got the guest additions installed, and I figured out how to add myself to the vboxsf group. I've tried changing the sharing and permissions settings on the mac, but nothing seems to help. I can see the folders on my guest, they show up as mounted in /media, I just can't see anything in them. What am I missing?

Well, I guess I solved my problem. I was using automount to set up the folders, but I unmounted the folders and set them up as manual mount. Then I mounted them to a folder in my home directory. This appears to have solved the permissions issues. Automount doesn't seem to have any way to specify a mount location, just the default.