I'm having trouble getting VMWare to enable shared folders between the host and vm as every time I try to enable it, I get the following error dialog:
VMWare Player
Unable to update run-time folder sharing status: Unknown error.
I'm running ubuntu 12.04 on the VM. I've read that it is likely a VMWare Tools issue, but I've reinstalled countless times now as root, guest, my account, and still no luck. I ensured that I had done apt-get
on the prerequisites of gcc, build-essentials and such, but still to no avail. A couple of times after reinstalling VMWareTools the error dialog did not appear, but even when a shared folder was added it did not appear in the /mnt/hgfs/
directory.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as to potential causes/solutions.
Best Answer
System Info:
I faced the same problem here but following code helped me get the shared folders from host:
Just keep on pressing Enter for all defaults and then do this at the terminal
here
user1
is your username andshares
is where your shared folders would be displayed. If this doesn't work try omittingshares
from above command.