Mount VBox shared dir as normal user in Linux guest

Rash wanted to mount a shared folder between his Windows desktop and a Linux guest running inside Virtual Box on said desktop.

He also wanted to be able to own and write to the mounted shared folder as himself, ( aka non-root user).

The syntax to put into /etc/fstab is:

[shared folder name] [mount path] vboxsf uid=[uid],gid=[gid],dmode=0755,fmode=0755 0 0

In Rash’s case this was:

Documents /home/rasheed/host_documents vboxsf uid=1000,gid=1000,dmode=0755,fmode=0755 0 0

Then, mount it:

sudo mount /home/rasheed/host_documents