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Convert shared folder with convmv -->Protocol Error

Posted: 29. Jan 2014, 11:40
by Magio
Hey there;


I have mounted a shared Folder of my Windows 7 Host on my Ubuntu 13.10 Guest System with installed GuestAddons and properly mountable configuration like this:

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mount -t vboxsf share sharepoint
It works ok, I can connect and read or write files in Ubuntu.


I need to convert the filenames to make them fit to SVN Guidelines; therefore I am using convmv. It worked always that way on a single Linux system without trying to get access to a mounted partition of another system. I used the following call:

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convmv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 -r /mountpoint
The dry run runs fine, but with --notest I always get the Error: Protocol Error, what means that it cannot write or rename the file. What to do?

Re: Convert shared folder with convmv -->Protocol Error

Posted: 29. Jan 2014, 12:24
by socratis
vboxsf is not an real, complete filesystem per se, so some features may not be properly supported. You could try with a true network share.