VirtualBox Shared Folder Creation

[CDN]

PCBSD 9 as guest on a Mac OSX host. VirtualBox 4.1.16
Seems that the guest additions are installed.
Created a shared folder on the Mac desktop.
Added a vboxsf group and added me as a member.
Used the command mount -t vboxsf nameofMacsharedfolder /pathtoMacsharedfolder and was unable to generate a shared folder.
I recall that the shared folder in Linux is created in the media folder, but not sure about here.
Also tried creating a folder in Documents of the guest and stating its path as the last part of the command, but got "Operation not supported by device"

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[fluca1978]

I suspect that vboxsf is not supported yet, so I suggest to share the folder via samba on the host and mount it via smbclient or smbutil.

[CDN]

I suspect that vboxsf is not supported yet, so I suggest to share the folder via samba on the host and mount it via smbclient or smbutil.

ok thx, I'll try that. are there any security concerns using samba?

[fluca1978]

Well, Samba, as anyother network daemon opens the door to any kind of remote exploit. I believe that samba is enough secure for day to day usage, but of course the short answer is yes.
Anyway I think that pretty much any deployment of an unix environment includes samba running as much as ssh....or at least this is true for today deployments. However you can tune very well permissions so that only a specific ip address, a specific user or a combination can access a share, so that noone else can see your data.