Sharing folders on VirtualBox from Mac host to Linux guest

Not sure if it was necessary, but it didn't work for me until I used lowercase for the VirtualBox name of the shared folder (the folder itself was still capitalized).

su root

mount -t vboxsf -o uid=ben,gid=ben,umask=022 notes /home/ben/Notes

exit

That is what worked, here are some things that didn't work, for this folder only

virtualbox shared folder location in guest machine

http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/VirtualBox_Shared_Folders

mkdir /tmp/mnt
mount -t vboxsf TempFiles /tmp/mnt
Once this command has been executed, the files in the host folder will be accessible in /tmp/mnt.

Currently I have to run this every time I want the folder to be synched in Mac OS X:

sudo mount -t vboxsf ubuntu /home/ben/Macosx

And then I need to use sudo to do anything in that directory in Ubuntu. Still some kinks in the system.