Can't create files in share

[liquidat]

When I create a share I am able to modify and also to delete files without any problem. However, when I try to create a share it fails due to insufficient rights:

Cannot create regular file 'fsda': Permmission denied.

This even happens when I try to create a file as root. The mount options are not the problem, 'mount' says the share is mounted rw.

The problem here is that some programs save files via deletion and re-creation. While that behaviour is nuts enough it makes the program unusable and makes it likely that other users might loose data!

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Not enough information. Which host, which guest?

[Doug Blackburn]

I'm not the original poster, but I'm seeing the same issue -- there seem to be a couple here ...

I'm using Virtualbox 1.5.6 on Vista Business x64. My guest OS is Fedora 8 (Linux 2.6). I created a shared folder through the Virtualbox GUI and mounted it in the guest OS using "mount -t vboxsf -ouid=500,gid=500 <sharename> /media/myshare"

I could edit existing files with emacs as user 500, but I couldn't create anything. I would get the same Permission:denied messag as above. I su'd to root, and tried to do the same, and I got the following error in /var/log/messages after executing "touch blah" in the shared folder: "setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing touch (unlabeled_t) to "associate" to blah (unlabeled_t)" After disabling SELinux, this message went away, and root was able to create files again. I logged back in as myself -- uid 500 -- and I am still not able to create files. I just get the permission denied error.

Hope that's helpful ...

[Sander van Leeuwen]

Try again with the 2.1.2 and reopen if required. Thanks.