Ubuntu – Files missing in /mnt/hgfs on Ubuntu VM

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I am running Ubuntu 64-bit on VMWare workstation 10. I want to access the files on my windows 8 PC (both on same PC). I have checked "always enabled" for folder sharing on VMWare and gave path to my drives (E,F,G and a folder on my PC). Installed VM tools, they're upto date.
The first two worked fine for me. But for the third one – "Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device" is being displayed. I am not able to find the shared files in /mnt/hgfs.

sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
sudo mkdir /mnt/hgfs
sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/hgfs

Should I enable any permission access for my drives. For the sharing properties of the drives on W8, I enabled "Share this folder" option. Even then I cannot see shared folders in my hgfs (ubuntu). I am a new bee to linux OS, so please help.

Thanks,
Ramu.

Best Answer

I have a similar problem and I solved it with the procedure suggested here, as indicated in Jorge's comment:

$ git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git
$ cd vmware-tools-patches
$ ./patched-open-vm-tools.sh

I hope this can help you.

Good luck!

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