Windows file sharing WITHOUT Vbox Guest Additions? How please

intels · 2017-08-17 22:41:58

I posted another inquiry about problems compiling Guest Additions. Bottom line, I am forced to use an OLD version of Vbox due to my old host Windows 2003 Server machine that does not support the latest VBox, and yes I'm stuck with this old OS so can't upgrade...won't bother with details. That said, i followed some instructions and seem that in my situation I can not get the guest additions to build on an old version of Vbox 4.3.12 (no I can not upgrade because the host OS will not support it).

That said.....I simply need to gain access (through guest Arch) to a bunch of files that are on a RAID which are attached to the host Windows 2003 Server. Basically just need to run a bunch of C++ scripts on these files within Arch but I can't get to the files through Windows due to this Guest Additions not compiling on the old Vbox. At least I can't figure it out yet.

So my question is this...is there another alternative to simply getting access to these files (basically copying them to a drive is not an option, as I'm talking terabytes of data...I need to access them, run some code on them, and generate some new files from them).

Something like samba or anything to just share the files from the Windows host into the Arch guest side?

Desperate at this point. I guess I could always revert back to installing Ubuntu on the thing, as I am pretty sure I can get that to work, but I'm trying to learn something new here and stick with Arch. I have it all working on my new updated OS's but I'm stuck with the installation on this old host machine.

I appreciate any suggestions and or help in advance

ewaller · 2017-08-17 22:49:00

sftp
sshfs. Can be a bit of a pain getting a ssh server running on Windows.
Samba on Arch. Share the "Folder" on Windows.

All of the above over a host only NAT network configuration.

intels · 2017-08-19 18:54:43

so I managed to get access to the Windows files using smbclient and with a manual command as:

mount -t cifs //192.168.56.1/cdrivedata /mnt/cdrive/data

but a few odd things...it asks for my user password (which i am part of sudoers) AND then it asks for the root password. only after i give the root password will it mount.

then i tried to add this to the fstab to automount, but it will not work....i suspect because it wants the root and user password for whatever reason.

fstab
//192.168.56.1/cdrive/data /mnt/cdrive/data cifs user=*****,password=*****,uid=*****,users 0 0

upon boot i see an error can't mount.

so two questions,
1). when manually mount why does it want the user and root password
2). any reason my fstab approach won't work

intels · 2017-08-20 18:54:32

yep rookie...so what...sorry for the crosspost. as i said, just learning and have posted like 5x, jeez gimme a break.

regardless i figured this out...for anyone else having the problem, the issue seemed to be the mount location was not available upon bootup so making the fstab as such now works flawlessly.

//192.168.56.1/cdrive/data /mnt/cdrive/data cifs credentials=/etc/conf.d/x.cred,noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=90 0 0

jasonwryan · 2017-08-20 19:07:32

intels wrote:

yep rookie...so what...sorry for the crosspost. as i said, just learning and have posted like 5x, jeez gimme a break.

Read the Code of Conduct and you won't need a break. Everyone else, for the most part, seems to manage.

Remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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#1 2017-08-17 22:41:58

Windows file sharing WITHOUT Vbox Guest Additions? How please

#2 2017-08-17 22:49:00

Re: Windows file sharing WITHOUT Vbox Guest Additions? How please

#3 2017-08-19 18:54:43

Re: Windows file sharing WITHOUT Vbox Guest Additions? How please

#4 2017-08-20 18:54:32

Re: Windows file sharing WITHOUT Vbox Guest Additions? How please

#5 2017-08-20 19:07:32

Re: Windows file sharing WITHOUT Vbox Guest Additions? How please

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