Can't mount shared folder on Linux VM

Question

Host machine: OS X El Capitan

Virtual machine: Linux Red Hat(64-bit) through Virtual Box

Goal: share folder on Mac, so when I change files on host machine, they will be changed on the virtual machine also.

Error: mount error(13) permission denied.

What I've already done and tried:

• I've shared folder on host machine: share with everyone with read-write permissions.
• I've run this command: sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.2/ia /var/www/apps/ia -o username="arsenpr",password="pass"
• I've tried to put sec= option as other people suggested, also I've tried to delete parentheses around username and password.
• Also I assumed that I've used some other username(which was too odd, but gave it a try) - didn't work. I asked my terminal whoami and it answered 'arsenpr'

None of the above helped me.. I've spend 2 days trying different things, different flags and reading man mount.

Why I am not thinking about giving up is because it does work if I run the same virtual machine on Windows host machine and do exact the same thing. It worked just right away with the command in the second point, though I have domain name on my windows machine and I also added ,domain=DOMAINNAME at the end of the command.

Actually I've also tried to put domain while doing it on Mac, but actually I'm not sure what it is and where to look. I looked at System Preferences -> Network -> connected wifi -> advanced -> WINS -> workgroup. But I'm not sure it's the right place to look for domain name of the network.

Any help would be highly appreciated. Ask any additional questions if I missed something. Thanks in advance!

UPDATE

Oh, here what I see today, after reinstalling the system:

It event didn't ask for password..

Answer 1

Isn't it a problem of permissions ?

On linux after creating a new OS through VB, I always need to add the current user to the vboxsf group in order to be able to mount the shared folder, please post the output of groups $(whoami) ...

To add yourself to vboxsf:

sudo usermod -aG vboxsf $(whoami)

Answer 2

When I have a centOS6 on Virtualbox I usually add in /etc/rc.local(guest machine side) a line like this :

mount -t vboxsf -o umask=0000,gid=48,uid=48 name-of-the-shared-folder /path/of/the/mounted/directory

this should mount the shared folder automatically at VM startup.

PS: if you have one you can get your current domain name by opening a terminal and perform eg. the following command:

domainname

UPDATE from Arseni Prokharchyk:

I should say, that without neok's answer this one didn't work for me.