I've got a Windows host machine at work, and want to setup an Ubuntu server to do my web dev work on. I got the server up and running, but I'm trying to mount a shared folder (containing all my site files) from my Windows host to my Ubuntu guest. I've created the shared folder in VB, though my laptop has a "Make Permanent" option my work PC doesn't. I've gone through the steps of installing GuestAdditions. I did check "Auto-mount", and so I do see the folder under /media/sf_www, but I'd like to get the folder mounted to /var/www instead.
When I go into the Ubuntu box, I follow the instructions from the Ubuntu help site:
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=$UID,gid=$(id -g) www /var/www
I also tried it with a manual uid=999,gid=999, which are the matching vboxadd group and user.
But upon running the mount command, I get a long error:
mount: wrongfs type, bad option, badsuperbloc on share, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
It says I can get some useful info in syslog (though that's not a command it looks like?), but I don't see anything there I can find useful.
Any advice? I can always serve out of /media/sf_www, but I'd like to understand why I'm getting the error I'm getting so I can improve, and I'd like to possibly get this working as intended (unless there's a good reason I shouldn't).
