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Questions tagged [shared-folders]

Questions about sharing/shared folders in a system, network, virtual devices, cloud, etc.

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How to access a shared folder in VirtualBox?

I followed the steps for sharing folders between Windows 7 and Ubuntu in VirtualBox. Despite that the folder appears with a X sign and gives me the following message when a try to open it: The folder content could not be displayed When I choose…
userInThisWorld
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Npm errors when installing packages on windows share

I have Ubuntu 12.10 running as a VMware guest on my Windows 8 host. I have shared a folder on my Windows 8 Host and it is mounted in the Ubuntu guest on startup using this entry in fstab: //myhost/work /work cifs…
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How do I set up shared folders in a Windows Virtualbox guest?

I have installed VirtualBox OSE on Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows XP pro as the virtual machine. Now I want to have a shared folder which can be accessed on both, my host Ubuntu machine, and my WinXP guest virtual machine. How can I do that?
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How to share files from Host to Guest in VirtualBox? Host-Ubuntu, Guest-Ubuntu

I have an Ubuntu 12.04 machine on which I have installed VirtualBox with Ubuntu 12.04 as the guest OS. How can I share files between the host and guest? I have installed the guest additions also but still it’s not able to mount the sf_shared…
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How do I trigger rsync on file modification?

I can sync folders with rsync -avz /directory /target, now I wish to do it if I changed a file in /directory so rsync should be called automatically. I am using Virtual Box and the shared folder of Virtual Box is really slow, especially if you have…
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How do I set up a folder so that anything created in it inherits permissions?

I have a /data folder (actually a partition) for all data that should be accessible by all users (in this case family members). We all have individual user accounts and are often all logged in at any time on this one PC. How can I set up permissions…
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Samba share read only for guests, read write for authenticated users

Is it possible to have a samba share read only for guests, and read write for authenticated users? If I put guest ok on an share then I am not prompted for a password, and effectively logged as guest with read only rights. But I want to be…
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How to share a folder between KVM host and guest using virt-manager?

For some time now, I've been using virt-manager to manage my virtual machines. When I want to copy a file from the host to the vm, I have been using scp to copy via ssh over the network. This is kind of tedious, and there must be a way to share a…
andrewsomething
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How can I share a directory with an another user?

I don't want the shared folder to be accessible by anyone on the system, I want it to be accessible just to a restricted set of users. How to I do that?
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Access Windows 10 Shared Folder from Ubuntu 18.04

I would like to share files between Windows and Ubuntu. In Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I could access shared folder on a Windows machine on my local network my navigating to Other locations in Files (Nautilus), accessing the Windows network, and browse. After…
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How to share folder with Windows 10 guest using virt-manager (KVM)?

These instructions for sharing host files with a guest are not working because there is no /usr/bin/qemu-kvm.
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How do I share a folder on a NTFS partition over the network?

I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, and I want to share a folder on an automounted NTFS partition (/dev/sda4) over the network. The purpose of this network is to share files between computers, it contains mostly Windows computers. I use this /dev/sda4 partition…
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Shared folder in VirtualBox (Ubuntu and Windows 7)

I want to have a directory which is accessible on both Windows 7 installed on Ubuntu host, and the Ubuntu as well. So I have installed the Virtualbox additions on both Windows and Ubuntu. Then in Ubuntu: sudo mkdir /media/win7share sudo mount -t…
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I cannot mount the shared folder between host windows machine and virtualbox guest linux

So in the setting of virtualbox shared folder, I already has the click the set-up: auto mount and make permanent. My shared folder is named as VM-share Then I log into the terminal of guest linux to type in the following commands: $ sudo mount -t…
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How can I make Files search recursively within a network share?

When I use Files to search within a network share, it says: Remote location - only searching the current folder How can I make it search all folders like it normally does? I understand that searching a remote location will take longer, and I…
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