Gaurav, thanks for your input. Unfortunately, I have Windows as the GUEST. So I'd have to run the samba server on the host (OpenSolaris). I'd very much like to avoid that.
Anyone else got any suggestions? Thanks, h > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:01:09 -0700 (PDT) > From: Gaurav Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Problems with Shared Folders on OpenSolaris > host / Windows XP SP3 guest... > To: VirtualBox end user list <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I had the some similar problems with shared folders on vista host and > ubuntu guest oS. Worked it around by sharing the drive as samba mount > point and the permissions etc issue were history: Do a network share > of windows folder (e.g. \\GAURAV-PC\media) > > On the guest OS: > > # mkdir -p /mnt/media > > # smbmount //GAURAV-PC/media /mnt/media -o > username=gaurav,password=welcome > > # more /etc/hosts > GAURAV-PC 192.168.0.2 > > # ping GAURAV-PC HAS to work when you give the smbmount command. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/media/oracle_12.0.4/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz# > lsmod | grep smbfs smbfs????????????????? 66296? 0 > > Samba server does not need to run: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/media/oracle_12.0.4/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz# > ps -ef | grep smb root????? 6116? 5616? 0 21:41 pts/0??? 00:00:00 > grep smb > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/media/oracle_12.0.4/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz# > more /usr/share/samba/smb.conf [global] > workgroup = WORKGROUP > security = share > > usershare path = /var/lib/samba/usershare > usershare max shares = 100 > usershare allow guests = yes > usershare owner only = yes > wins support = no > netbios name = GAURAV-PC > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/media/oracle_12.0.4/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz# > mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) > proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755) > varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) > devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw) > securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) > rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) > nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw) > gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/gverma/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon > (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=gverma) //GAURAV-PC/media on /mnt/media type > cifs (rw,mand) > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:10:10 AM > Subject: [vbox-users] Problems with Shared Folders on OpenSolaris > host / Windows XP SP3 guest... > > Hi All, > > have run into problems with shared folders on an OpenSolaris host with > Windows XP SP3 as a guest. > > The shared folder is accessible from within the guest, however: > > - all files are reported with 0 bytes size > - files cannot be deleted from the guest side > - running, e.g., installers from the shared folder works fine but > copying files over results in files with size 0. > > Can anyone advise on how to remedy these problems? > The settings are of course set to full access. > > Much obliged, > > Hakim > > -- > S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] / Eroteme.org -- S. Hakim Hamdani [ML] / Eroteme.org _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
