How to create a shortcut of a remote folder?

Faraz Durrani

1/20/23, 8:09 AM

I have ubuntu-server running in VirtualBox. This VirtualBox is running on (L)ubuntu 20.04.

I want to create a shortcut for a folder present inside ubuntu-server within VirtualBox. I want to be able to access content of this folder from outside the virtual box (the host OS).

edit1: I was able to ssh into the folder via a GUI and also ssh-mount it using sshfs.

sshfs -p 3022 [email protected]:/var/www /home/username/Desktop/remote/ -o identityFile=/home/username/.ssh/id_ed25519

nautilus ssh://[email protected]:3022 &

But the problem is, I cannot view the content inside remote folder /var/www/

How can I resolve it? I have tried nautilus-admin to no avail.

edit2:

I checked permissions inside the remote directory and this is the output:

root@user-ubuntu-server:/# ls -la /var/www
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root     4096 Aug 13 00:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root     root     4096 Aug 12 14:59 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root     4096 Aug 12 23:46 html
drwxr-x---  5 www-data www-data 4096 Aug 13 04:08 your_domain

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virtualbox

lubuntu

virtualization

shared-folders

20.04

Kev Inski

1/20/23, 9:07 AM

I would [ssh-mount](https://askubuntu.com/questions/412477/mount-remote-directory-using-ssh) the folder into the host

Faraz Durrani

1/21/23, 8:40 AM

I edited my question. Can you please take a look?

Kev Inski

1/21/23, 9:42 AM

please add the output of your servers `ls -la /var/www`. It looks like a permissions problem.

Faraz Durrani

1/21/23, 12:34 PM

Can you please check edit 2?

Faraz Durrani

1/22/23, 9:02 PM

I just needed to run `sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/your_domain/`. It may be too dangerous to give all the permissions, but for me it's allright. Problem solved.