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Have you seen this error message:

root@ubuntu:/media/cdrom# ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 2.1.4 Guest Additions for Linux installation...........................................................................................................................................................................................................
VirtualBox 2.1.4 Guest Additions installation
Please install the build and header files for your current Linux kernel.
The current kernel version is 2.6.27-11-server
Problems were found which would prevent the Guest Additions from installing.
Please correct these problems and try again.

Solution:

sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

or

sudo aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade && aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r`

Related

• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1058950
• http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-446927.html

Once I need to mount a Windows share on my Ubuntu Server.

By default the folder was mounted as readonly but I fixed that by supplying dmask=777,fmask

Here is the command I used.

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mount -t smbfs -o username=guest,password=,dmask=777,fmask=777 //192.168.0.10/myshare /mnt/existing_folder/

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If you have any ideas or if I can add something and/or improve this article do leave a comment.

Thanks.

Slavi