The thing has one big plus, when you still use it as an usual drive instead of a network drive, where the network setup is initially required. The rest is the same, just mount the host drive in the Guest as a VirtualBox Shared Folder. Particulary for the Windows you can use, for example, ImDisk toolkit for that. You can extract all shared directories and data into separate vdi file and mount it as a usual drive or directory in the host. set the same as password for convenience and from Windows you can now access ///root and read/write the whole Linux filesystem use the same that you use in the guest - it more convenient This command has to be run with root privilege.

Now, set a username and password for the Samba share. = FOR DEVELOPMENT ONLY = Do not do this in production!!! = Samba ConfigurationĬonfigure Samba service on the guest so that Guest FS will be accessible on the windows network like yet another computer to write / read files from To be able to access the VM from outside the host you must change the virtual machine networking from NAT to the 'bridged' You can do this by configuring Samba on the guest Linux machine

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