I had not tried Mageia since having to drop it when Plasma 5 was first introduced.
I installed it as a virtual machine under VirtualBox, alongside XP and Windows 10.
It all went well except for two things:
1) Autologin doesn't, despite checking the settings; and
2) I cannot access the host's directories.
The host is Mint and I use samba for file management.
The samba client was installed.
Although I set VirtualBox to share certain 'er shares. I cannot find them from Mageia.
Needless to say, I can do from either or both Windows VMs.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:36:54 +0000, pinnerite wrote:
I had not tried Mageia since having to drop it when Plasma 5 was first introduced.
I got tired of plasma crashes at the time and went with xfce.
I installed it as a virtual machine under VirtualBox, alongside XP and Windows 10.
It all went well except for two things:
1) Autologin doesn't, despite checking the settings; and
2) I cannot access the host's directories.
Can we assume you added your id to the vboxusers group on the host.
You may have to create the group.
If you do add your id be sure to log out/in to pick up the new group.
Check with 'id -nG'
'
The host is Mint and I use samba for file management.
The samba client was installed.
Although I set VirtualBox to share certain 'er shares. I cannot find them from Mageia.
Needless to say, I can do from either or both Windows VMs.
Hope you did add the VirtualBox_Extension_Pack to the guest.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:36:54 +0000, pinnerite wrote:
I had not tried Mageia since having to drop it when Plasma 5 was first introduced.
I got tired of plasma crashes at the time and went with xfce.
I installed it as a virtual machine under VirtualBox, alongside XP and Windows 10.
It all went well except for two things:
1) Autologin doesn't, despite checking the settings; and
2) I cannot access the host's directories.
Can we assume you added your id to the vboxusers group on the host.
You may have to create the group.
If you do add your id be sure to log out/in to pick up the new group.
Check with 'id -nG'
'
The host is Mint and I use samba for file management.
The samba client was installed.
Although I set VirtualBox to share certain 'er shares. I cannot find them from Mageia.
Needless to say, I can do from either or both Windows VMs.
Hope you did add the VirtualBox_Extension_Pack to the guest.
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 09:49:30 -0600
Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:36:54 +0000, pinnerite wrote:
I had not tried Mageia since having to drop it when Plasma 5 was first introduced.
I got tired of plasma crashes at the time and went with xfce.
I installed it as a virtual machine under VirtualBox, alongside XP and Windows 10.
It all went well except for two things:
1) Autologin doesn't, despite checking the settings; and
2) I cannot access the host's directories.
Can we assume you added your id to the vboxusers group on the host.
You may have to create the group.
If you do add your id be sure to log out/in to pick up the new group.
Check with 'id -nG'
'
The host is Mint and I use samba for file management.
The samba client was installed.
Although I set VirtualBox to share certain 'er shares. I cannot find them from Mageia.
Needless to say, I can do from either or both Windows VMs.
Hope you did add the VirtualBox_Extension_Pack to the guest.
At the time, I tried to install cinnamon on Mageia but failed.
That is why I switched to Mint. There was a little bit of a learning curve but it was minimal.
When you refer to the vboxers group on the host, I presume you mean on Mint. If so, it was already there.
I had not intalled the extension pack on Mageia. I have since but have hit other issues.
The shares come up in Dolphin but cannot be mounted unless I have adminstrator privileges.
I opened a terminal and tried to change the ownership etc (chown) of one share. After 10 minutes I stopped it.
It feels like starting Linux all over again. I expected the unintuitive os management from Microsoft but not from Mageia. Mandrake was never this irritating. :)
It doesn;'t look as though I am going to return to Mageia as my main Linux OS.
I will persevere but not now.
The shares come up in Dolphin but cannot be mounted unless I have adminstrator privileges.
I opened a terminal and tried to change the ownership etc (chown) of one share. After 10 minutes I stopped it.
It feels like starting Linux all over again. I expected the unintuitive os management from Microsoft but not from Mageia. Mandrake was never this irritating. :)
On 1/6/22 14:18, pinnerite wrote:
Your guest user has to be a member of the vboxsf group to have access to
The shares come up in Dolphin but cannot be mounted unless I have
adminstrator privileges.
I opened a terminal and tried to change the ownership etc (chown) of
one share. After 10 minutes I stopped it.
It feels like starting Linux all over again. I expected the
unintuitive os management from Microsoft but not from Mageia. Mandrake
was never this irritating. :)
the shared folders.
That's a VirtualBox thing, not a Mageia thing. It's the same with any
Linux guest.
TJ
On 7/1/22 14:07, TJ wrote:
On 1/6/22 14:18, pinnerite wrote:We all have to do it. Open Userdrake or MCC->System->Users->Edit User.
Your guest user has to be a member of the vboxsf group to have access
The shares come up in Dolphin but cannot be mounted unless I have
adminstrator privileges.
I opened a terminal and tried to change the ownership etc (chown) of
one share. After 10 minutes I stopped it.
It feels like starting Linux all over again. I expected the
unintuitive os management from Microsoft but not from Mageia.
Mandrake was never this irritating. :)
to the shared folders.
That's a VirtualBox thing, not a Mageia thing. It's the same with any
Linux guest.
TJ
Then open Groups. There is an alphabetical list. Check the group vboxusers. Then back out but beware: You need to set your user password again in the first screen before you exit.
Hopefully, you will have better luck than I am having. I won't repeat
my problems with VirtualBox here. I have fiddled with qemu/kvm, but I
don't have enough marbles left.
On 7/1/22 14:07, TJ wrote:
On 1/6/22 14:18, pinnerite wrote:We all have to do it. Open Userdrake or MCC->System->Users->Edit User.
The shares come up in Dolphin but cannot be mounted unless I haveYour guest user has to be a member of the vboxsf group to have access
adminstrator privileges.
I opened a terminal and tried to change the ownership etc (chown) of
one share. After 10 minutes I stopped it.
It feels like starting Linux all over again. I expected the
unintuitive os management from Microsoft but not from Mageia. Mandrake
was never this irritating. :)
to the shared folders.
That's a VirtualBox thing, not a Mageia thing. It's the same with any
Linux guest.
TJ
Then open Groups. There is an alphabetical list. Check the group vboxusers. Then back out but beware: You need to set your user password again in the first screen before you exit.
Hopefully, you will have better luck than I am having. I won't repeat
my problems with VirtualBox here. I have fiddled with qemu/kvm, but I
don't have enough marbles left.
On 7/1/22 14:07, TJ wrote:
On 1/6/22 14:18, pinnerite wrote:We all have to do it. Open Userdrake or MCC->System->Users->Edit User.
Your guest user has to be a member of the vboxsf group to have access
The shares come up in Dolphin but cannot be mounted unless I have
adminstrator privileges.
I opened a terminal and tried to change the ownership etc (chown) of
one share. After 10 minutes I stopped it.
It feels like starting Linux all over again. I expected the
unintuitive os management from Microsoft but not from Mageia.
Mandrake was never this irritating. :)
to the shared folders.
That's a VirtualBox thing, not a Mageia thing. It's the same with any
Linux guest.
TJ
Then open Groups. There is an alphabetical list. Check the group vboxusers. Then back out but beware: You need to set your user password again in the first screen before you exit.
Hopefully, you will have better luck than I am having. I won't repeat
my problems with VirtualBox here. I have fiddled with qemu/kvm, but I
don't have enough marbles left.
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