If you're like me and still need Windows for a few tools (Photoshop), you're either dual-booting or using a virtual machine. In my case, I tried VMware Workstation, but had some kernel panics.

I decided to try the proprietary version of VirtualBox, which is free but closed-source. Vista worked well but I ended up installing XP. While it's very fast and almost everything works, I had problems browsing my shared folders. If you navigate to \\vboxsvr using the address bar you'll get an error.

Instead, open up the command line and type:

net use v: \\vboxsvr\YOUR_SHARE_NAME

Replace YOUR_SHARE_NAME with the share you'd like to use, in my case it was Home. This will map the share to a network drive. It will be mapped every time you start the machine, so there's no need to do it again.

If you're doing multiple shares, replace the letter v with a new letter to use a different drive per share. I hope this helps out people who were confused by VirtualBox's folder sharing on a Windows XP guest.