We want to be able to ping our host OS form our guest OS using second network adapter and vise versa.

This part can be different on different Host and Guest OS, but logic behind is the same. Now, we want to configure connection on our second network adapter.

Under Advanced option, set Promiscuous Mode to Allow All.

Change Attached to setting for Adapter 2 to Host-Only Adapter.

Click on Adapter 2 and select Enable network adapter to activate second adapter.

Because this reasons, we want to create additional virtual network interface that will do exactly that. This folder should be shared only internally between host and guest OS only. We don’t want for that folder to be visible on our network or to have access form then internet. We want to create Samba Shared Folder between or Virtual machine and our host OS. Configure VM - Add additional network interface I will split Samba Shared Folder in couple of logical steps, so please follow careful. Because this, I tried this Advanced VirtualBox Shared Folder with Samba. exe files from shared folder that we generated inside my VM. In my casem I have problem with anti virus program that was erasing my. VirtualBox’s shared folders doesn’t play well when you want to access program files that are saved in those shared folders. VirtualBox’s shared folders work fine, but there are couple of corner cases where Samba share folder is useful. In plaint old English, with samba we can share folder between Windows and Linux PCs over the network.

Because of all that it offers, Samba has grown in popularity, and continues to do so, every year since its release in 1992. Samba is a software package that gives network administrators flexibility and freedom in terms of setup, configuration, and choice of systems and equipment. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. If you are interested check out my first online course with topic Virtualization with VirtualBox.

For this post I’m using Windows 10 Host and Manjaro KDE guest OS. For Advanced VirtualBox Shared Folder using Samba we need to have Linux Guest OS, so that we can install Samba Server. I will show you how to setup Samba Shared folder between virtual box and host PC. In this post I will show you different way of setting up Shared Folder between your virtual machine and host PC when using Oracle’s VirtualBox. I’m hoping that you are well in this strange time.

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