Cannot share folder - Win7 host, Ubuntu 10.10 guest

[Tdonohue]

I have been working on this for more than 6 hours and just cannot share a folder between Ubuntu 10.10 running in a virtual box on a Windows 7 desktop.

I have installed DKMS and guest additions.

"winshare' is a folder on my host desktop. "share" is a folder in the home folder on the ubuntu guest.

I type:

mount -t vboxsf winshare /home/share

and get:

/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such file or directory

I cannot see what I'm doing wrong.

[Tdonohue]

As a workaround I've installed teamviewer on both host and guest and the file transfer feature works okay. What a PITA though