Shared Folders - network path not found

[gambrjl]

Ok. I've got virtualbox installed and working with a Windows XP installation as a guest and what I'd like to do is this..

share my /home/user/Music folder with the Guest so that I can use MediaMonkey to manage my music and sync it with my Creative Zen (I just like the way mediamonkey handles it).

First of all I'm having trouble getting sharing to work at all. I tried first with an empty folder that I created just to test using the documentation here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox)


#mkdir ~/vboxshare
#VBoxManage sharedfolder add "Windows XP" -name "share" -hostpath ~/vboxshare


It then shows up under shared folders when I start virtualbox. Then when XP is all booted up I fire up a dos prompt and do


net use x: \\vboxsvr\share


and get

System Error 53 has occured. The Network Path was not found

What am I doing wrong?

[gambrjl]

Doh.. I thought since I had a shared folders option I already had guest additions installed.. so I'll update this for those that

to add Guest Additions go to

Devices -> Mount CDDVDROM -> CD/DVD-ROM Image

then navigate to

/usr/share/virtualbox

and you'll see VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

choose that and you're off to the races. Sorry for the post

[seijling]

Well, this post helped me! Thank you!

[ruru]

Thanks - this helped me too!

[dnick]

thanks again)