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Is seems that the format for getting shared folders to work with Linux clients has changed. Assuming I’m trying to mount the Windows Desktop in the Linux client I used to use the following command.

# mount -t vboxsf \\vboxsvr\Desktop /mnt/desktop

I tried this today and it fails with the error:

# /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error

It turns out that the way to get this working is to drop the server name and use a lowercase ‘D’.

# mount -t vboxsf desktop /mnt/desktop