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Share VirtualBox folders in reverse? Guest-Host?
I'm familiar with the process of installing Guest Additions and sharing host folders with the guest, but is there a way to do the reverse?
I have an XP host and Ubuntu 10.10 guest, with VBox 4.0.2.
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Permission denied when accessing VirtualBox shared folder when member of the vboxsf group
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 sudo ls ...
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Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) — How to access files from the hosting machine?
I have a PC with Windows 7 Ultimate (A) running on it. From within that OS I have VirtualBox running another Windows 7 instance (B).
Is there any way for the Windows 7 (B) to access files from ...
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Windows XP cannot access a Windows 7 shared folder
I have a small business network, where there is a centralized imaging machine. This machine then has a shared folder with all the stored images. Originally the imaging machine was an XP, and the ...
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How can I make these computers share folders again?
OK, I've had enough of this.
My mom's family's business is having problems with their two computers, which we'll call PC1 and PC2. Both are running Windows 7, and they used to have some shared ...
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How to mount a network drive to a folder?
Does anyone know of a third party (or even windows native) solution to this simple problem.
I want to map an internal network share on our windows server to a folder on each of the client machines in ...
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Getting an error trying to set up shared folders on an Ubuntu instance of VMWare Fusion running on OSX
Receiving the following error:
Unable to update runtime folder sharing status: There was an error
mounting Shared Folders file system inside the guest operating system.
Running VMWare Fusion ...
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Common folder in linux
I have two users on my Ubuntu machine. I want to share some media files between these users, so I created a directory in /home/ called 'media'. I made the group 'media' and I added my user 'rks171' ...
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Accessing a shared folder using other credentials with Windows 7
I was at a client office trying to connect to a shared drive on their network but was greeted by a
"you do not have permission to access" error!
Couldn't find any way to enter the required ...
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How can I navigate in command prompt to a remote folder which has been shared among users? [duplicate]
So basically I want to go to 192.xxx.xxx.xxx\myFolder to see the files in it.
I go with Explorer and it works fine, I can even delete and/or modify and add files to it.
The problem is that I'm ...
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Notification when someone connects to my PC
I share out a folder on my windows 7 machine. But, I would really like a notification to tell me when someone connects to it. Or I would like to at least be able to check at any one time who is ...
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Enable (or work around) Administrative shares in Windows 8
So in using Windows 8, I've discovered that the administrative shares are disabled. There seems to be no easy way to get them re-enabled.
Is anyone aware of a work around, or solution?
I did not ...
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Setting up a Home Sync/File/Backup Server
I'm about to buy a new laptop, and I would like to turn my old PC into a file/backup server.
I have 5 "client" computers beside the server machine. 1 of the clients (mine) will run Arch Linux, and ...
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Can't access shared folder from another PC using a user with same name and password
I have 2 computers running Windows 7 Professional that are part of the same workgroup. Password protected sharing is turned ON. On both computers, i have a single user. These two accounts have the ...
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how do I share a folder beetwen Linux running Android on Virtual box?
I'm running Android (without installing it) through VirtualBox under Ubuntu. I already added a folder of my Ubuntu system, in the shared folder settings in VirtualBox.
Now the question is: how do I ...
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VirtualBox shared folder write permission - Ubuntu 12.04
I'm using the following command to mount my folder in VirtualBox:
sudo \mount -t vboxsf -o rw -o uid=1000 -o gid=1000 Dropbox ~/Dropbox/
However, the folder is read-only. I re-installed Guest ...
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why can't I create directories in virtual box shared folder? Windows 7 host, arch linux guest
I'm mounting a shared folder in an arch linux guest on a windows 7 host in Virtual Box. The shared folder's filesystem is ext3 and is mounted in windows 7 with Ext2Fsd.
I mount the shared folder at ...
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auto-mounting shared folders in VirtualBox
I am writing to ask what the effect of the auto-mounting process is in VirtualBox, and where the folders can be accessed within a guest Linux system if auto-mount is used.
I have VirtualBox 4.0.4 ...
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Setting up a small office shared network with wireless tv
Recently my brother asked me to help him set up a shared network for his small business. Some of the stuff he was asking for seems reasonable, but other things I'm not sure where to begin. He has ...
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\\ComputerName is not accessible do not have permission to access folder
Additional message:
account disabled
This truly pissed me off.
I tried to access a network drive. At first I was asked for log on information. At that time I didn't know the logon information, put ...
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How can I run PowerShell scripts from VirtualBox shared folders when using remote signed execution policy?
I'm using VirtualBox with a shared folder mapped to drive E:. I want to run a PowerShell script from drive E:. I set:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Remotesigned
I added file://vboxserver using the advanced ...
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Remote Desktop freezes when using MS Access or opening shared folders for a specific user
One of our users connects to an XP machine via Remote Desktop and logins into that machine as herself. She mainly works with MS Access in that Machine. However everything she clicks anything inside ...
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How to use UNC path correctly to share a folder on remote computer?
I would like to know if somebody knows the correct syntax for giving a folder a share on remote network machine's folder.
Please write a syntax you know for sure that it's working.
This operation ...
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Windows Server 2008 softwares sharing usage [closed]
Ok, I just install the Windows 2008. In here, I would like to use Win Server 2008 with delphi, eclipse, and other softwares installed.
And now, I would like to ask several questions.
Is it ...
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Windows 7 access to share folder in multi domain
I use vpn to connect my PC to another domain.
When at this state,the vpn connection is on, but I can no longer access a share folder in another PC using the first domain credentials. It says I don't ...
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Is NFS appropriate for large networks?
In pure Linux networks, I've read that NFS is good if the network is small. Are there performance issues that one runs into when using NFS for large networks? Security issues? Is there a competitor ...
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Secure shared folders over VPN
I have machines both on windows 7 and windows 2008 R2.The VPN is up and running, and on all machines the VPN network is set to Home, and router network is set to public.
What I need, is a secure and ...
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How can I see if a user deleted a folder in a shared resource using AD?
Is there any way to see if a user deleted a folder in a shared resource (we have Active Directory)?
I need to see if someone is removing folders or if they do actually "magically disappear".
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Windows 7 shows all drives when on Ubuntu
I have a laptop and a desktop. On my Desktop I have Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and I just recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.
In Ubuntu I setup samba, and attached myself to the network which ...
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Automatically organizing a network drive
The non-profit I work for has recently purchased a 42TB NAS unit. This unit will store media production files: .jpg, .mp4, .pst, .indd, etc.
I'd like to be able to specify a set of rules for a folder ...
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Is there a way to hide Share Folder size status on Windows 7?
I'd like to hide shared folders size status in users side. The status shows like this:
And this makes users to put more data's on the shared folders instead of using dedicated place's. Is there a ...
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how to deal with shared home directory on linux?
situation is as follows:
home directory is on nfs share A: /home/me
workstations a, b, c, ... share that home directory: /home/me is a link to A:/home/me
all workstations are used at the same time
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how to create shared folder so that my friend in other city can copy the content of that folder?
how to create shared folder so that my friend in other city can copy the content of that folder through internet?Is that possible?
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Windows shared folder password location
as title says..
I browsed a shared folder (from win to win) using combination of username/password, where are they stored?
I'd like to reset it so the next time I try to browse the folder I'll get ...
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Can I update a shared dropbox file while not changing the link?
I have a file I would like to update on dropbox. About 900 people know this shared link.
However, when I update the file the link is changed, e.g. from
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sharing folders with passwords
I have a Linux box which should share a few directories to other systems over the LAN.
The other systems are running linux as well.
I'd like to associate a different password for each folder without ...
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where is the shared folder in linux inside Vmware Player?
I'm trying to write a program which will copy files from my guest OS which is linux Ubunto to my host OS which is windows 7. I have enabled the shared folders options but of course in order to copy ...
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How to view my Windows Live Mesh files on the iPhone? [closed]
I use Windows Live Mesh to sync folders. I've also synced the folders to SkyDrive synced storage.
I'd like to access the files from my iPhone. So I downloaded the SkyDrive app from Microsoft, but ...
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Why can't I share a folder on Vista?
On Windows Vista, I right-click on a folder, Properties, Sharing tab, and either "Advanced Sharing" or "Share"->"Share" causes an error:
Windows File Sharing
This program will not run
Access is ...
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How do i set up shared folders in virtual box (windows 7 host, Ubuntu guest)?
I have windows 7 (host), virtual box, and BioLinux6 (a varient of Ubuntu) as the guest OS.
how can i set up the shared folders to be usable for read and write in both OS without having to re-mount ...
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How to mount a shared folder on Windows 7 host as home directory for Linux guest under VMware Player
The host computer is running Windows 7 Ulitmate, the guest OS will be Linux (the brand to de decided later; likely Debian 4 or CentOS 6). The hypervisor is VMware Player 4. My problem is: how do I get ...
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Cannot access Windows 7 shared drive from OS X
I have a shared drive I: in Windows 7, I want to access that drive from my Mac, but I am not able to connect to my windows. From Finder > Go > Connect to server
smb://192.168.0.101
It asks me for a ...
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Windows 7 Find Who Accesses a Shared Folder
could anyone help me in finding the access logs to a shared folder in Windows 7.
I would like to get information like the user name, time, IP, etc.
I have already looked into the Event Viewer to ...
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Virtualbox shared folder reading problems from Apache
I have a problem with files on a mounted share inside a Virtualbox machine.
The problem is that even though I can see the content of the files fine enough from the shell, the same files turn out ...
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Benefits of NFS-based fileshares
I've been reading up on fileshare tools like NFS the past few days, and I understand the concept of exporting directories, mount points, shared files/directories, etc.
However, each of the ...
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Linux: Shared and mounted directories
Fairly-new to Linux and am trying to see if I can start getting a little clever. I have a server that contains files that I'd like to have "locally" accessible on other servers directly under the / ...
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Shared folder between Host and Guest in VM player
I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home Basic and I installed Ubuntu in VM player. Now I want to share folders and files between Windows and Ubuntu. How can share a folder or file?
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How to setup a Windows 7 folder so that everything in there is shared automatically?
I have a folder somewhere on my D> drive that I would like to share with everybody on my network.
When I right click the folder and share it with everybody, all the files are shared correctly. The ...
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/srv/mm/Music (etc) Twonky won't scan here for media
Is there something special about /srv/mm/ that Twonky server refuses to scan there?
I previously had my system set up with all my Music, Video and Photo folders in /srv/mm shared by Samba, miniDLNA ...
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VirtualBox sharing a folder
I had to share a folder on my virtual machine, Windows XP running on VirtualBox installed on Windows 7. How do I do that?
I learnt about a command, "net use...", but that didn't work.
