virtualbox shared folder change permissions

It seems the permissions you expect with the mount command are only reflected on the directories and the files within the directories maintain a read only, no execute access level. You get the expected behaviour, in particular the folder symbol has the locked icon and you cant create files in the share Sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000,ro You can move a file out of the share, edit it then put it back OK. Click on the bird icon, select Users and Groups Manage Groups vboxsf Properties.

Although you can create and delete files in the folders you cant edit any of the files (as if the permissions are actually set to read only), nor if you copy an executable into the shared folder can you run it or even set the permission to allow it to run. I followed this procedure: Check that your user account is in the vboxsf group. If you examine the files and folders in the guest the permissions seem to be set correctly ie read and write etc. The share is correctly set up on the host with full access. Sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 I can successfully mount a shared folder using a command such as:

I'm running VB on XP SP3 with a Ubuntu 8.04 guest. The issue is that the shared folder's permissions are set to not allow symbolic links by default.

Virtualbox shared folder change permissions