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Ubuntu on Oracle VirtualBox: Shared folders

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I looked at this question, but it didn't help. I'm running Windows 7 as a host with Ubuntu 10.10 as a guest with VBox 4.0. I want to have a shared directory between the two. I have installed Guest Additions. I went to the VBox control panel in Windows, added a Shared Folder (sharename Shared_Folder…

Error Output

foo@foo-VirtualBox:~$ sudo mount -t vboxsf collectivefiles FileShare
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device

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Fix for: Ubuntu on Oracle VirtualBox: Shared folders

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At least on my Win7 host with Ubuntu 10.10 guest running under VirtualBox 4.0.2, I didn't have the problems you mention. Something to be aware of though is that the shared folder is mounted with permissions set with the root account user and vboxsf …

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