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This will reload the group with the new permissions. This can easily be done by logging out of Linux and logging back in. Once the new group has been added you need to reload the groups for that user. This adds the group vboxsf to the user chewett. usermod -aG vboxsf chewettĪbove I am using usermod to add a new group to the user. To fix this I can use usermod to add a new group to my user. This is because the only users allowed to mount shared folders are those in the vboxsf group. I found out that this problem occurs when you don’t have rights to use the VirtualBox shared folders service. This post explains why this happens and what you can do to fix it.įixing “Access Denied” when mounting the folder The error “access denied” appeared each time I attempted to mount the volume. I personally use my guest to download and unpack binaries like Tomcat to a targeted mount.I was looking to add shared folders to my Fedora VM but during mounting them there was an error. Use guest subversion client to create repository to mounted directory (you won't have a full svn client but the repo can be used in an IDE on the host). Now mount it under the name you configured it with: sudo mount -t vboxsf myFileName ~/destinationĪs an extra tip you can really exploit this feature to do things like: IOW if you can't write to file on host, the guest can't either.Īfter setting up the file to be shared create a destination if you don't have one: Note that the host file permissions are transient. To share folders set them up to be shared.