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I'm trying to use a shared folder from the host Windows machine as the root directory for lighttpd on the guest Ubuntu virtual machine. When I attempt to change the permissions, nothing happens. The permissions always remain the same (as shown below). lighttpd always returns a 403 error no matter the file type. How can I change the file permissions?

Edit:

Research suggests adding my user to the vboxsf user group will allow me to change the permissions. When I attempt to add my user to the group using usermod, it seems to have worked but the changed are immediately overridden and rolled back. Other sources suggest I have to manually mount the disk with permissions I want. Despite my attempts at changing the owner, root still remains owner. This is despite my earlier explanation of attempting to use usermod to change the owner. Checking the group settings in the /etc/group file, I see my username is listed. However, virtualbox may be interferring.

As an alternative, I'm considering doing a network share from the guest to the host.

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/media/sf_Space.io$ ls -l
total 10
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 May 12 11:57  css
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    8 May 12 12:27  index.html
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 May 12 11:57  js
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 May 12 11:57  PythonCGITest
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 1181 May 12 11:57  README.md
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf    0 May 12 11:57  sprites
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf  587 May 12 11:57  test.html
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 4096 May 12 11:57 'welcome page (sketch)'

I'm using Lubuntu with the ODROID C0. There is a Python script which needs to be autostarted. I navigated to

[start menu]>preferences>Default applications for LXSession

, then navigated to the autostart tab and added xterm -e "python /path/to/script.py". The xterm autostart works but reads the error

xterm: Can't execvp "python: No such file or directory

Any ideas about how I can properly configure the autostart of this Python script?

Thanks.

I am attempting to create a web server with Ubuntu Mate 16.04LTS on my Odroid C2. I have tried configuring Ubuntu similar to this question Enable/Disable Passwordless Login/Autologin Via GUI/Command Line. However, while there is no longer a password prompt, I still am required to click the "login" button to login despite the absence of a password. How can I make it enter the desktop without any user intervention?

My rationale with this request is to eliminate the need for a keyboard/mouse. Since it is a single board computer, eliminating all peripherals would simplify things.

Thank you.