Hi, the good news is that you don't even need to add anything to your
fstab file for mounting shares automatically; all it takes is a short
script file and telling your desktop to load it at startup.

Here's my step by step:

== Shares setup: ==

1. Assign the host folders to share through the VM settings in
VirtualBox. No need to setup shares in Windows Explorer itself.

2. Create mount points for the shares in the guest (as root):
mkdir /mnt/share
mkdir /mnt/share/music
mkdir /mnt/share/videos
mkdir /mnt/share/pix
mkdir /mnt/share/dox
mkdir /mnt/share/down

3. Setup sudo (as root):
Add the following at the end of /etc/sudoers:
user ALL = NOPASSWD : ALL
Replace "user" with your username.

4. Create a script to mount your shares:
mkdir ~/Scripts
nano scripts/shares
#!/bin/sh
sudo mount -t vboxsf music /mnt/share/music
sudo mount -t vboxsf videos /mnt/share/videos
sudo mount -t vboxsf pix /mnt/share/pix
sudo mount -t vboxsf dox /mnt/share/dox
# sudo mount -t vboxsf down /mnt/share/down
Make shared-folders script executable:
chmod +x shared-folders

5. Add the script to Gnome startup programs:
Desktop > Preferences > Sessions > Startup Programs

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