But this can be inconvenient and you may want to the current user (you) to be able to access the files without having to enable root or opening your file explorer with root privileges. Therefore, you need to enable root (administrator privileges) to access the shared files.

The shared folder is mounted with 770 permissions with root user and vboxsf as the group. You may encounter permissions issues when trying to access VirtualBox shared folder on Ubuntu (or other Linux distros). Navigate to these folders to access the files. Username htpcbeginner will be different in your case. Its mount point will be: /media/htpcbeginner/sf_Share or /media/sf_Share, depending on the guest OS. In the example shared folder shown in the picture above, Folder Name is also known as ShareName. If you enabled Auto-mount while creating shared folder then it should automatically be mounted to /media/USER/sf_ShareName or /media/sf_ShareName, depending on your guest OS. Mounting VirtualBox shared folders is easy on Linux guest OSes.

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