I am using Parallels 11 and I really need to be able to use the shared home folder (or another shared folder) using non-root accounts in my Linux VM (Ubuntu 16.04). This is clearly not a good security practice and also prevents me from discovering bugs that would be visible only when running as a normal user. How can I address this problem? Update: I tried to add a fstab line similar to the example from http://download.parallels.com/doc/pcs/html/Parallels_Cloud_Server_Users_Guide/35698.htm but when I tried to "mount -a" I got: Code: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on none, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so.
It seems that I was able to do this using Code: mount -t prl_fs -o uid=1001,gid=1001 Home /home/sorins
I cross posted this at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...me-directory-as-a-normal-user-instead-of-root but I still have one unsolved issue: How can I mount this using fstab?! I am unable to find any examples of using prl_fs inside fstab and giving the source share name ("Home" in my case)
Should I also add that the documentation feedback form is broken on Chrome? Asks to pick the product and just reloads.... http://www.parallels.com/support/usersdoc/?problemSubject=Feedback+on+Help+Page+35698 So do we have any chances of getting a fstab mounting line that works?
Hi, Have you tried adding this line to `/etc/fstab` ? Code: Home /home/sorins prl_fs sync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,share 0 0 It should works with "mount -a"
I was able to solve the problem using this approach: cat `/etc/mtab` and copy the line from there to `/etc/fstab` and adding `uid=xxx,gid=xxx`. Doing a `mount -a` and I am done.
