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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