Error Making Symbolic Link Protocol Error

Opened 13 months ago Last modified 12 months ago Symbolic links with `..` result in `protocol error` on vboxsf + 5.0.4 Reported by: scoates Owned by: Priority: major Component: shared folders Version: VirtualBox 5.0.4 Keywords: Cc: sean@… Guest failed to create symbolic link protocol error vagrant type: Linux Host type: Mac OS X Description When creating a symlink that virtualbox failed to create symbolic link protocol error contains .., we're seeing "protocol error" messages. For this example /vagrant is none on /vagrant type vboxsf (rw,nodev,relatime). cd error making symbolic link read-only file system /vagrant ; mkdir test ; cd test ; ln -s ../Vagrantfile . ln: failed to create symbolic link `./Vagrantfile': Protocol error This also happens when linking .. and not into the

Making A Symbolic Link Mac

root. It does not happen when linking .. outside of the vboxsf system. This happens for us on 5.0.4r102546 but not on 5.0.0r101573. It may be related to the following: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14463 https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14153 Note: if the symlink is made on the host FS (and not created on the VM), it seems to behave normally/correctly. Host for our tests is Mac OS X 10.10, guest is making a symbolic link windows Debian Jessie. Change History comment:1 Changed 13 months ago by scoates Also worth noting: I can successfully create symlinks on the vboxsf filesystem that do not contain .. comment:2 Changed 13 months ago by cama900 Just wanted to add my voice to this. Took me hours to figure out the problem because it occurred by trying to run npm install, not just making symlinks comment:3 Changed 13 months ago by scoates FWIW, mine happened when doing an automated-at-provisioning git checkout (which happened to contain ../ symlinks). comment:4 follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 13 months ago by sunlover Fixed in https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-5.0.5-102721-OSX.dmg Please test whether this build it works for you. Thanks. comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 Changed 13 months ago by frastel Replying to sunlover: Fixed in https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-5.0.5-102721-OSX.dmg Please test whether this build it works for you. Thanks. I had the same problem. My setup: VirtualBox Version 5.0.4 OS X 10.10.5 docker-machine version 0.4.1 Vagrant 1.7.4 Symlinks are working again with your posted 5.0.5 testversion. Looks good to me! comment:6 Changed 13 months ago by scoates Confirmed. Works for me on 5.0.5r102721. Thanks! Looking forward to 5.0.5-actual comment:7 Changed 13

Opened 8 months ago Last modified 8 months ago Creating symbolic links results in making a symbolic link in linux protocol error. Reported by: sbaechler Owned by: Priority:

Symlink Protocol Error

major Component: virtual disk Version: VirtualBox 5.0.14 Keywords: symlinks Cc: Guest type:

Ln Failed To Create Symbolic Link Protocol Error Vagrant

Linux Host type: Windows Description This is related to Ticket #14563. When running Vagrant on a Windows 10 host, https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/14563 creating a symbolic link fails. Not just with relative paths but also with absolute paths. The error only occurs in the Vagrant synced folder. With NFS and regular mount options. Here is an example: vagrant@scotchbox:/var/www/public$ ln -s index.php test.php https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/15105 ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘test.php’: Protocol error Attachments VBox.log (63.4 KB) - added by sbaechler 8 months ago. Change History Changed 8 months ago by sbaechler attachment VBox.log added comment:1 Changed 8 months ago by frank Status changed from new to closed Resolution set to duplicate Duplicate of #10085. Symlinks on shared folders cannot be created from the guest due to security reasons. Creating the link on the host and using it from the guest is no problem. Should be fixed eventually but the fix is not trivial. Note: See TracTickets for help on using tickets. Download in other formats: Comma-delimited Text Tab-delimited Text RSS Feed Contact – Privacy policy – Terms of Use

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Apparel forum Discussions forum Forum record_voice_over Laracasts Podcast forum Laravel Podcast Forum Servers Creating symbolic link on Homestead? Creating symbolic link on Homestead? thebasix card_membership — 3 months ago I'm trying to link storage directories on Homestead, but when I try I get an error: failed to create symbolic link public/storage Protocol error the command was ln -s /home/vagrant/code/myapp/storage/app/public /home/vagrant/code/myapp/public/storage Is there any way around it? christopher — 3 months ago Just try it with sudo e.g sudo ln -s /home/vagrant/code/myapp/storage/app/public /home/vagrant/code/myapp/public/storage Just try it with `sudo` e.g ``` sudo ln -s /home/vagrant/code/myapp/storage/app/public /home/vagrant/code/myapp/public/storage ``` Cancel Update Your Reply thebasix — 3 months ago Nope. I still get the same error. Nope. I still get the same error. Cancel Update Your Reply christopher — 3 months ago Are you on Windows? It seems that this is a Problem with the host filesystem. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17895256/creating-symbolic-link-protocol-error http://www.ahtik.com/blog/fixing-your-virtualbox-shared-folder-symlink-error/ Are you on Windows? It seems that this is a Problem with the host filesystem. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17895256/creating-symbolic-link-protocol-error http://www.ahtik.com/blog/fixing-your-virtualbox-shared-folder-symlink-error/ Cancel Update Your Reply thebasix — 3 months ago Thanks for the links. However, I've tried everything on that second link and I still get the same error. Thanks for the links. However, I've tried everything on that second link and I still get the same error. Cancel Update Your Reply darwinluague9001 — 3 weeks ago I'm using windows 10 running the command