SF Won't Auto-mount Lubuntu 15

[madurham]

I can't get my Lubuntu 15.04 guest to auto-mount a shared folder from a Windows 10 host.

I have a shared folder mapped onto my host as N:\
I have set up the SF with the following settings:
-Folder path: n:\
-Folder Name N_DRIVE
-Read-only: (cleared)
-Auto-mount: (checked)

I boot up the guest and there isn't a /media/sf_N_DRIVE folder.

I tried manually mounting to a brand new folder /home/student/N_DRIVE

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sudo mount -t N_DRIVE /home/student/N_DRIVE

I then get the following error:

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Mount: can't find /home/student/N_DRIVE in etc/fstab

I seem to always have issues with shared folders in Linux I've mounted shared folders in Lubuntu guests before.
The attached log appears to auto-mount the SF without error.

[loukingjr]

did you add your username to the vboxsf group?
In Lubuntu's Terminal run…

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sudo adduser vboxsf <username>

replace <username> with your login name. reboot the guest.

[socratis]

Have you read Ch. 4.3.1 Manual mounting and 4.3.2 Automatic mounting of the user manual? At a first glance, your command line for manual mounting is not correct, and as for the automatic one, are you a member of the vboxsf group? (Edit: you were already asked about this one)

[madurham]

Doh! Oh yeah I missed 'vboxsf' out of the manual mount command. But still, I now get:

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/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device

Yes, the user I am using is in the vboxsf group.
I used a different command though:

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Sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf student

Thanks for the quick replies.

[loukingjr]

Just looked at your log. There are no guest additions installed. You need to install the guest additions for shared folders to work.

[madurham]

Just looked at your log. There are no guest additions installed. You need to install the guest additions for shared folders to work.

I forgot to install dkms before the additions.
Half my brain still thinks it's Christmas. Thanks loukingjr.

[loukingjr]

welcome.