Sharing a Folder from HostOS to Vmware Guest OS

I tried to share a folder from my windows machine(HOST OS) to Linux (VMWare Guest OS).
I breaked my head for more than an hour and found an article from vmware site.

1) Share the folder in windows (Right click the folder click share button and provide access to any windows user) which you want to share with Linux.
2)In Linux machine (VMWare Guest OS) login as root and issue below command.

mkdir /mnt/docs
mount -t smbfs -o username=<Windows system user account>,password=<password> //<Win_Hostname>/docs /mnt/docs

Now you can see the shared folder under /mnt/docs.

Eventhogh this is simple i wasted 1+ hour for this,so thought of sharing........