Comments on: VirtualBox Shared Folders Protocol Error in Ubuntu Guest

By: Daniel Rosenstark

Daniel Rosenstark — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:13:12 +0000

I have no idea what anybody here is talking about, but I had this same problem

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2134135/rail...

and adding a password to root solved it. Thanks!

By: lightsound952

lightsound952 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:28:47 +0000

Omg. THANK YOU!

By: lightsound952

lightsound952 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:28:47 +0000

Omg. THANK YOU!

By: thesilentwarrior

thesilentwarrior — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:39:50 +0000

Hey, i have been struggling without luck, tryed every option i found.
My share name is KubuntuShare and i want it tied to /var/www/ so i can easily deploy some scripts and watch them run.

Tryed :
mount -t vboxsf -o uid=33,gid=33 KubuntuShare /var/www/
mount -t vboxsf -o uid=silent,gid=silent,umask=022 KubuntuShare /var/www/
sudo mount -t vboxsf KubuntuShare /var/www/

And several other variations, with sudo, with sudo su, with su -, with diferent working directory, etc, and i couldnt get it up and running, i even installed Samba after and tryed a direct windows share but it didnt work.

Any ideas?

Heres a pic:
http://yfrog.com/0vsnapshot1kp

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:50:56 +0000

Bastien,

Thanks for the solution, and you convinced me to move the comments box to the bottom of the thread. It makes more sense to be there anyways!

By: Bastien

Bastien — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:25:32 +0000

Oops, it has already been said, sorry, i didn't read because the comment form is before the comments …

By: Bastien

Bastien — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:24:33 +0000

Here is my solution not to be forced to be a root to read or write in shared folders : http://forum.videonoob.fr/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=171

By: rbrambley

rbrambley — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:35:57 +0000

Voni,

Thanks for taking us by the hand on this config!