id summary reporter owner description type status component version resolution keywords cc guest host 2265 Directory names clash with shared folder names srackham "If you have a folder in the same directory as your mount directory that has the same name as the VirtualBox shared folder name you will get a 'mounting failed with the error: Protocol error' error. Here's a transcript that illustrates the problem -- the first mount works fine, but the second (after creating a directory with the same name as the shared folder) fails: --------------------------------------------------------------------- $ ls -l[[BR]] total 4[[BR]] drwxr-xr-x 2 srackham srackham 4096 2008-09-18 17:10 shared $ sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=srackham,gid=srackham host shared/ $ mount -t vboxsf[[BR]] host on shared/ type vboxsf (uid=1001,gid=1001,rw) $ sudo umount shared/ $ mkdir host $ ls -l[[BR]] total 4[[BR]] drwxr-xr-x 2 srackham srackham 4096 2008-09-18 17:14 host[[BR]] drwxrwxrwx 1 srackham srackham 0 2008-09-18 10:16 shared $ sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=srackham,gid=srackham host shared/[[BR]] /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error --------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know if this is the right place for unsolicited praise but a big thank you to everyone involved for this absolutely amazing piece of software. " defect closed shared folders VirtualBox 2.0.2 invalid mount shared folder Linux Windows