VirtualBox Shared folders

I had some problems in using the method everybody seems to be using when wanting to share a folder between the WinXP host and the guest OS Ubuntu.

You may find everywhere that you need to execute the following command:

sudo mount -t vboxfs sharename mountpoint

This seems to give a protocol error.

On one of the fora there was an alternative that did work however:

sudo mount.vboxfs sharename mountpoint

This seems to work fine.

Thanks to entry found here.