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| 4 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="sf_mount_manual">
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| 5 | <title>Manual Mounting</title>
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <p>
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| 9 | You can mount the shared folder from inside a VM, in the same
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| 10 | way as you would mount an ordinary network share:
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| 11 | </p>
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| 12 | <ul>
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| 13 | <li>
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| 14 | <p>
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| 15 | In a Windows guest, shared folders are browseable and
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| 16 | therefore visible in Windows Explorer. To attach the host's
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| 17 | shared folder to your Windows guest, open Windows Explorer
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| 18 | and look for the folder in <b outputclass="bold">My
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| 19 | Networking Places</b>, <b outputclass="bold">Entire
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| 20 | Network</b>, <b outputclass="bold">Oracle VM VirtualBox
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| 21 | Shared Folders</b>. By right-clicking on a shared
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| 22 | folder and selecting <b outputclass="bold">Map Network
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| 23 | Drive</b> from the menu that pops up, you can assign
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| 24 | a drive letter to that shared folder.
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| 25 | </p>
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| 26 | <p>
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| 27 | Alternatively, on the Windows command line, use the
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| 28 | following command:
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| 29 | </p>
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| 30 | <pre xml:space="preserve">net use x: \\vboxsvr\sharename</pre>
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| 31 | <p>
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| 32 | While <codeph>vboxsvr</codeph> is a fixed name, note that
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| 33 | <codeph>vboxsrv</codeph> would also work, replace
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| 34 | <varname>x:</varname> with the drive letter that you
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| 35 | want to use for the share, and
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| 36 | <varname>sharename</varname> with the share name
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| 37 | specified with <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput>.
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| 38 | </p>
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| 39 | </li>
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| 40 | <li>
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| 41 | <p>
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| 42 | In a Linux guest, use the following command:
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| 43 | </p>
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| 44 | <pre xml:space="preserve">mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint</pre>
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| 45 | <p>
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| 46 | To mount a shared folder during boot, add the following
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| 47 | entry to <filepath>/etc/fstab</filepath>:
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| 48 | </p>
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| 49 | <pre xml:space="preserve">sharename mountpoint vboxsf defaults 0 0</pre>
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| 50 | </li>
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| 51 | <li>
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| 52 | <p>
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| 53 | In a Oracle Solaris guest, use the following command:
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| 54 | </p>
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| 55 | <pre xml:space="preserve">mount -F vboxfs [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint</pre>
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| 56 | <p>
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| 57 | Replace <varname>sharename</varname>, use a
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| 58 | lowercase string, with the share name specified with
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| 59 | <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> or VirtualBox Manager. Replace
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| 60 | <varname>mountpoint</varname> with the path where
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| 61 | you want the share to be mounted on the guest, such as
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| 62 | <filepath>/mnt/share</filepath>. The usual mount rules
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| 63 | apply. For example, create this directory first if it does
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| 64 | not exist yet.
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| 65 | </p>
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| 66 | <p>
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| 67 | Here is an example of mounting the shared folder for the
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| 68 | user jack on Oracle Solaris:
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| 69 | </p>
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| 70 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ id
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| 71 | uid=5000(jack) gid=1(other)
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| 72 | $ mkdir /export/home/jack/mount
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| 73 | $ pfexec mount -F vboxfs -o uid=5000,gid=1 jackshare /export/home/jack/mount
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| 74 | $ cd ~/mount
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| 75 | $ ls
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| 76 | sharedfile1.mp3 sharedfile2.txt
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| 77 | $</pre>
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| 78 | <p>
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| 79 | Beyond the standard options supplied by the
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| 80 | <userinput>mount</userinput> command, the following are
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| 81 | available:
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| 82 | </p>
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| 83 | <pre xml:space="preserve">iocharset CHARSET</pre>
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| 84 | <p>
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| 85 | This option sets the character set used for I/O operations.
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| 86 | Note that on Linux guests, if the
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| 87 | <codeph>iocharset</codeph> option is not specified, then
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| 88 | the Guest Additions driver will attempt to use the character
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| 89 | set specified by the CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT kernel option. If
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| 90 | this option is not set either, then UTF-8 is used.
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| 91 | </p>
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| 92 | <pre xml:space="preserve">convertcp CHARSET</pre>
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| 93 | <p>
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| 94 | This option specifies the character set used for the shared
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| 95 | folder name. This is UTF-8 by default.
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| 96 | </p>
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| 97 | <p>
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| 98 | The generic mount options, documented in the
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| 99 | <userinput>mount</userinput> manual page, apply also. Especially
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| 100 | useful are the options <codeph>uid</codeph>,
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| 101 | <codeph>gid</codeph> and <codeph>mode</codeph>, as they
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| 102 | can allow access by normal users in read/write mode,
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| 103 | depending on the settings, even if root has mounted the
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| 104 | filesystem.
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| 105 | </p>
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| 106 | </li>
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| 107 | <li>
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| 108 | <p>
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| 109 | In an OS/2 guest, use the <userinput>VBoxControl</userinput>
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| 110 | command to manage shared folders. For example:
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| 111 | </p>
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| 112 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxControl sharedfolder use D: MyShareName
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| 113 | VBoxControl sharedfolder unuse D:
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| 114 | VBoxControl sharedfolder list</pre>
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| 115 | <p>
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| 116 | As with Windows guests, shared folders can also be accessed
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| 117 | via UNC using <filepath>\\VBoxSF\</filepath>,
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| 118 | <filepath>\\VBoxSvr\</filepath> or
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| 119 | <filepath>\\VBoxSrv\</filepath> as the server name and the
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| 120 | shared folder name as <varname>sharename</varname>.
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| 121 | </p>
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| 122 | </li>
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| 123 | </ul>
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| 124 | </body>
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| 125 |
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| 126 | </topic>
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