Sharing Folders with Ownership of a Server User

Another way of using the Shared Folders functionality is to configure your system so that a shared folder has the same owner and group as it has on the physical server. To enable this option for your system:

1. Open the /etc/fstab file for editing.
2. Locate the Shared Folders line:

   none /media/psf prl_fs sync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,share,context=system_u:object_r:removable_t:s0,nofail

3. Replace the share option with the plain one, or if the former is not present, just add the plain option to the line:

   none /media/psf prl_fs sync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,plain,context=system_u:object_r:removable_t:s0,nofail

4. Save the file.

Now if you share the /home/SharedFolder directory that contains the files 1.txt and 2.txt and is owned by the greg user and the greg group and mount it to the /media/psf/Shared directory in the MyVM virtual machine, both files will have greg as the owner and group owner in the virtual machine:

# ls -l /home/SharedFolder

total 4

-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 143 May 4 15:15 1.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 0 May 4 19:04 2.txt

[bob@dhcp-10-30-21-207]$ ls -l /media/psf/Shared

total 4

-rw-r--r--. 1 greg greg 143 May 4 19:04 1.txt

-rw-r--r--. 1 greg greg 0 May 4 19:04 2.txt