When using auto-mount I could list directory content, but only as root. When using my regular user, I had a “Permission denied” error. Apparently it’s an old issue that was not really fixed.
I spent an hour looking for this, so I’m posting it in hope it can help someone:
Let’s say I have a “Documents” shared folder on my OSX host, and I want to mount it on /media/my-share on the Ubuntu guest:
- Install Vbox additions
- Add the share in the “Shared Folders” screen, in Virtualbox, give full access, but don’t check auto-mount
- Check your uid&gid on the Ubuntu guest (by doing a cat /etc/passwd and looking for the numbers after your name, mine are 1000 and 1000)
- Add the following line in your guest’s /etc/fstab
Documents /media/my-share vboxsf uid=1000,gid=1000,nodev,noexec,nosuid,auto,rw 0 0
Thanks, this helped me!
Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot !! VB 4.1.4 is still buggy on that side.