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Yesterday I had a problem with the shared folders when running 64bit Fedora 12 in Virtualbox. When I ran the command to mount the share

# mount -t vboxsf sharename mountpoint

it just returned the error ‘command not found’. It turns out the the command is actually a symlink called /sbin/mount.vboxsf that points to /usr/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf.

My symlink was broken due to the fact that on 64bit systems the program is actuallly located in /usr/lib64/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf. To fix I simply deleted and recreated the symlink to point to the correct location.

# cd /sbin
# rm mount.vboxsf
# ln -s /usr/lib64/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf mount.vboxsf

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