Permission denied when accessing VirtualBox shared folder when member of the vboxsf group
Problem
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 (guest) on Windows 7 (host) with the guest additions installed. I have an auto-mount folder that maps to my D: drive on the host which I can access using - however, even when my user (ross) is a member of the vboxsf group I get a permission denied error when attempting to explore it. I have restarted since adding my user to the vboxsf group. This should work because I am a member of the group (which has rwx rights), so why doesn't it?
Error Output
ross@panther:~$ ls -l /media total 8 drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 8192 2011-07-03 22:24 sf_D_DRIVE ross@panther:~$ ls -l /media/sf_D_DRIVE/ ls: cannot open directory /media/sf_D_DRIVE/: Permission denied ross@panther:~$ id ross uid=1000(ross) gid=1000(ross) groups=1000(ross),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdr…
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Fix for: Permission denied when accessing VirtualBox shared folder when member of the vboxsf group
I had added my user to the vboxsf group: I did do a restart, but after logging out and in again, I got access! Restarting after this and it still works. Go figure.
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