Error: -bash: cd: /media/sf_vmshare: Permission denied
Created a host folder as shared directory in Oracle Virtual box and specified auto mount option. When non root user tried to access thsi directoty above error -bash: cd: /media/sf_vmshare: Permission denied was returned. Remedy was to create a directory in that non root user and mount the shared hsot directory in that directory. Ofcourse first the auto mount directory has to be dismounted.E
[oracle@node1 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 13G 7.1G 5.0G 59% /
tmpfs 1.2G 223M 907M 20% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 73M 29M 41M 41% /boot
/dev/sda2 1008M 260M 698M 28% /tmp
vmshare 1.7T 193G 1.5T 12% /media/sf_vmshare
[oracle@node1 ~]$ cd /media/sf_vmshare
-bash: cd: /media/sf_vmshare: Permission denied
REMEDY:
[oracle@node1 ~]$ mkdir ~/vmshare[oracle@node1 ~]$ su - root
Password:
[root@node1 ~]# umount vmshare
[root@node1 ~]# mount -t vboxsf vmshare /home/oracle/vmshare/
[root@node1 ~]# exit
logout
[oracle@node1 ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 13G 7.1G 5.0G 59% /
tmpfs 1.2G 223M 907M 20% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 73M 29M 41M 41% /boot
/dev/sda2 1008M 260M 698M 28% /tmp
vmshare 1.7T 193G 1.5T 12% /home/oracle/vmshare/
[oracle@node1 ~]$ cd /home/oracle/vmshare/
[oracle@node1 vmshare]$ touch abc