[vbox-dev] Typos (?) in online user manual

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Fri Apr 24 16:09:10 GMT 2020


On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 19:02 +0200, Andreas Löffler wrote:
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> 
> On 24.04.20 16:12, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to draw your attention to a section in the online user
> > manual which seems to contain
> > 
> > several typos. I marked the differences in spelling by (<<<<).
> > 
> 
> What makes you think that those are typos? Something isn't working
> for
> you in that regard? The keywords "vboxsrv", "vboxsvr" and "vboxsf"
> are
> intentional.



vboxsvr exist ? is not a typo ? is yes stand for what ? 

Thanks 


> Andreas
> 
> 
> > =======
> > 
> > 
> >      4.3.1. Manual Mounting
> > 
> > You can mount the shared folder from inside a VM, in the same way
> > as you
> > would mount an ordinary network share:
> > 
> >  *
> > 
> >    In a Windows guest, shared folders are browseable and therefore
> >    visible in Windows Explorer. To attach the host's shared folder
> > to
> >    your Windows guest, open Windows Explorer and look for the
> > folder in
> >    *My Networking Place*s, *Entire Network*, *Oracle VM VirtualBox
> >    Shared Folders*. By right-clicking on a shared folder and
> > selecting
> >    *Map Network Drive* from the menu that pops up, you can assign a
> >    drive letter to that shared folder.
> > 
> >    Alternatively, on the Windows command line, use the following
> > command:
> > 
> >    net use x: \\vboxsvr\sharename
> > 
> >    While |vboxsvr| (<<<<) is a fixed name, note that |vboxsrv|
> > (<<<<)
> >    would also work, replace /|x:|/ with the drive letter that you
> > want
> >    to use for the share, and /|sharename|/ with the share name
> >    specified with *VBoxManage*.
> > 
> >  *
> > 
> >    In a Linux guest, use the following command:
> > 
> >    mount -t vboxsf (<<<<) [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint
> > 
> >    To mount a shared folder during boot, add the following entry to
> >    |/etc/fstab|:
> > 
> >    sharename   mountpoint   vboxsf (<<<<)  defaults  0   0
> > 
> >  *
> > 
> >    In a Oracle Solaris guest, use the following command:
> > 
> >    mount -F vboxfs (<<<<) [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint
> > 
> > ==========
> > 
> > 
> 
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Sérgio M. B.




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