Ubuntu – Failed Mounting VirtualBox Shared Folders in an Ubuntu 17.04 Guest

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I have a folder in my Windows 10 host that needs to be shared with the Ubuntu 17.04 Virtualbox Guest.

Here's what I did:

  1. Added the windows folder to the VM's Shared Folders Folder Lst
    (Name: scraper, Auto-mount: Yes, Access: Full, Machine Folder)

  2. Added user to vboxsf group

    sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf scraper

  3. sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 scraper /mnt/the-scraper

and encountered this 

/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory

Why is this error happening? How can we solve this?

Best Answer

You must log out, and log back in, for the vboxsf group to be enabled.

No implicit mount is required. If your Windows folder shows up in the Shared Folder icon at the bottom of the VB window, you just need to open a Nautilus window and click on the shared folder name in the left pane, or, in the Shared Folder setting, indicate that it should auto-mount.

Before doing your implicit mount, did you create the directory /mnt/the-scraper?

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