If you have used VirtualBox with host and guest windows, then you know that it has very nice automounting shared folders feature. The same feature is now available for Linux based guests. But there is a hitch. For your user to be able to access the shared folder, you would need to be added to vboxsf group as the permissions don't allow you to see the shared folder. By the way, all shared folders are automounted under /media/sf_<sharedfolder name>.
root@kibo-UbuntuVM:~# ls -l /media/
total 16
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 16384 2011-04-30 22:59 sf_Shared
root@kibo-UbuntuVM:~# useradd -G vboxsf [your gnome session user]
Or alternatively you can add an existing username in /etc/group file at the end of line which starts with vboxsf.
ensure you logout and login again and voilà!
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