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VirtualBox: Shared Folder not visible on Linux/Ubuntu

Question by Guest | 2014-10-29 at 18:07

I am running Windows on my computer and I have installed Linux/Ubuntu as virtual machine in VirtualBox. As it became cumbersome in the long run to always exchange data via USB stick between the systems, I came to the idea to set up a shared folder that can be accessed from both systems.

With pain and misery, I have managed to install the necessary Guest Additions on Ubuntu. Although I succeeded in doing this and I have already created a shared folder, the directory is not appearing in the Linux system.

I have seen that it is obviously necessary to "mount" the folder in Ubuntu, but that did not work for me. After entering the recommended command "mount -t vboxsf share mount_point", I always get an error message that the specified folder does not exist. What can I do? 

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First of all, you cannot just enter "mount -t vboxsf share mount_point" into the terminal. You have to replace "share" and "mount_point" by the name of the folder.

For example, when having the directory "WindowsFolder" on Windows and "LinuxFolder" on Linux, you have to use the following command:

sudo mount -t WindowsFolder Desktop/LinuxFolder

Additionally, you have to keep in mind to prefix the command with "sudo", because the command has to be run as administrator.

It is important that the folder names and the paths to the folder are correct. Probably, this is what is leading to your error, when getting the error message that the specified phone is not existing. Perhaps you do not have created the folder on your Linux system or you have specified an incorrect file path. Have you used the matching uppercase lowercase writing of the folders? And is also the name of the folder from Windows matching?
2014-11-01 at 12:04

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Thanks for the help! Now it it is working! The error was that I had not created the folder on my Linux system! I had thought that the command would automatically create a new folder if it does not already exist. 
2014-11-02 at 16:43

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