Error opening directory “/media/" Permission denied... virtualbox

Question

I'm running Lubuntu on Virtualbox on a PC. I've shared a folder (via the Lubuntu menu) on my PC so that I can transfer files to and from my Lubuntu instance.

However, when I try opening it I get the following error:

Error opening directory “/media/sf_MOVIES_AND_SERIES”: Permission denied.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Solution

Any ideas?

Check help

For Linux and Oracle Solaris guests, access is restricted to members of the group vboxsf

Add user to vboxsf group

sudo adduser <username> vboxsf

Comments

[cmak.fr]

add your user to the vboxfs group

[tabata]

if MOVIES_AND_SERIES directory is also mount point on host OS, try to change shared folder path into a directory in MOVIES_AND_SERIES.

[Gottano]

That gave some sort of an error ( I don't remember what exactly), so I continued looking and this worked: sudo usermod -G vboxsf -a username ln -s /media/sf_shared/ name_of_link.

[Sparky]

@Gottano after running sudo adduser myUserName vboxsf, I restarted the VM and it worked for me.