Windows 7 running in VirtualBox cannot see shared folders

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I have a VirtualBox instance (running under Mac OS X 10.5) and Windows 7 running in VirtualBox. Everything is otherwise fine, but I cannot understand how to use shared folders. I have added a shared folder in the VM configuration in VirtualBox, but I cannot for the world of me understand how do I access the shared folder in Windows 7.

Other instructions seem to talk about the network, and that my VirtualBox should somehow show up in the network and expose shared folders there. But I do not see anything that looks like VirtualBox in the Network in Windows Explorer. What do I look for?

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Typically it just shows up a fake-virtual-server on the network - you can access it as though you would a file share on some real server. The name is VBOXSVR.

\\Vboxsvr\share_name

I haven't tested Win7 yet, but I have used this functionality on everything from Win200 through 2003. Do you have the guest additions installed?

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Install the Guest Additions and setup a shared folder (if you haven't done this yet), then use the following command from a command prompt:

net use x: \\vboxsvr\shared

X: is the drive letter that will be assigned to the network drive

Replace shared with the folder name you provided when setting up the shared folder.

You should get this:

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If you don't want to map the shared folder, you can always type \\vboxsvr\shared into the address bar of Windows Explorer or the Run box.

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Rather old but just in case:

mount.vboxsf -w nameofsharedfolderinvbox /destination/path/on/linux

Also to add it to fstab:

nameofsharedfolderinvbox  /destination/path/on/linux  vboxsf  defaults  0 0

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