I’m somewhat new to linux. I’m running Opensuse Factory in a Virtualbox VM. I’ve enabled shared folders in Virtualbox. I’ve added my user to the vboxsf group. However in Dolphin I can not access my shared folders. When I attempt to open the /media folder I get the error message “could not enter folder /media”. When I run Dolphin in superuser mode, then I can see my shared folders in the /media folder.
Can someone help me to make my shared folders visible to my userid ?
I can’t remember having this issue with Opensuse 13.1 in a VM. I’m not positive, I suppose that I could create an Opensuse 13.1 in a VM if all else fails.
ps… I did install Virtualbox 4.3.16 and then installed the guest addon’s within the Factory VM. Perhaps that is the cause of this issue.
Your user must have the appropriate access rights.
Either “chmod a+rx /media” (a+rwx if you want write access as well), or “chown username: /media” should help.
Or change the permissions with dolphin.
If in doubt, please post the output of:
ls -la /media
Btw, AFAIK /media is not created automatically any more on Factory, maybe that’s part of the problem?
If you create it manually, you have to take care yourself of the correct permissions.
And the purpose of /media is/was for mounting removable disks/partitions. Probably no good idea to use it for shared folders…
From Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Wikipedia
Ok, your user can access the actual shared folders, because he’s in the “vboxsf” group, and those have “rwx” access for the group.
BUT: /media itself can only be accessed by root!
On my 13.1 system the access rights are the same as for / (i.e. the “…” entry in the above listing), so run this to change them accordingly:
But as I said, you could have just granted read and execute permissions (“Can view content” in KDE’s properties dialog) to “Others”, this is the default setup on 13.1: http://wstaw.org/m/2014/09/12/properties.png
Whatever you prefer, though…
On 2014-09-12 07:16, chaat wrote:
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> I’m somewhat new to linux. I’m running Opensuse Factory in a Virtualbox
> VM. I’ve enabled shared folders in Virtualbox. I’ve added my user to the
> vboxsf group. However in Dolphin I can not access my shared folders.
> When I attempt to open the /media folder I get the error message "could
Factory? I understand that factory is disabling the /media folder support.