Opened 17 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
#1637 closed defect (duplicate)
Linux unable to mount Shared folder if folder name is same with mount path
| Reported by: | nnnf | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 1.6.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error
The error above will be shown when typing the following command:
sudo mount -t vboxsf vfolder /home/myname/vfolder/ (this is Ubuntu 8.04)
The shared folder settings: Folder name: vfolder Folder path: c:\vfolder
It will work, however, if a different name is given for the mount dst path, eg. /home/myname/abc
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
comment:2 by , 17 years ago
| Resolution: | → duplicate |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Duplicate of #928, see explanation there.
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This is a known issue - the mount command thinks that the share name is a file on disk and tries to expand its path - so it expands the sharename "vfolder" to "/home/myname/vfolder/". Try using "mount.vboxsf" instead of "mount -t vboxsf".