Sudo ln -s /media/sf_share /share_directory Type the following to create the symbolic link: After that, all you have to do is create a symbolic link so that you can access it at the particular mount point that you would like.If you’re not a member, then type the following to add yourself to the group, where username is your username:.Type the following to see if you’re already a member: Therefore, your username needs to be added to the vboxsf group. This folder has owner of root and group of vboxsf. First off, VirtualBox’s Guest Additions automatically mounts the shared folder to /media/sf_share, where share is the name of the shared directory that you defined earlier. If you want to have your shared directory automatically mounted every time, there’s a few steps that you’ll need to take.

To more fully understand this command, please see the mount man page. Please change your UID and GID accordingly. This will also set all directories to have 777 permissions and all files to be 666. If you would like the files to be owned by you, use the following command.

With the above command, the shared directory will be owned by root:root and all directories and files with have 777 permissions.

$ sudo mount -t vboxsf share /shared_directory

Type the following to manually mount the shared directory.

Create a mount point for the sharedirectory:.

Check the options that you would like: Read Only, Auto-Mount, and/or Make Permanent.

This does not have to be the same as the directory itself, but this is the name you’ll use in Ubuntu.

Navigate to the folder on the host computer that you want to share.

Select the menu: Devices/Shared Folders….

Right-click on your virtual machine and select settings.

Open VirtualBox on your host Windows computer.

Otherwise, continue reading and I’ll show you how to mount a shared folder. If you haven’t done so and would like to know how, read this previous post where I show you how. A prerequisite is that you have to have VirtualBox Guest Additions already installed. In today’s post, I will show you have to mount a Windows shared folder in Ubuntu 12.04 from within VirtualBox.

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