unable to see shared folders in ubuntu(guest) installed in vmware

I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 in Vmware workstation in my windows7 OS. I installed VMware tools in Ubuntu.

I have configured the shared folders in settings. Using the below command, I am able to get shared folders

/usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient

But the shared folders are not present /mnt/hgfs

I tried to install Vmware tools multiple time but no luck.

3 Answers

Follow the steps. It worked for me for ubuntu 14.04 LTS running in vmware.

Make sure open-vm-tools is not installed. sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools

1. Make sure the updates are done: sudo apt-get update

2. Make sure git is installed sudo apt-get install git

3. Run the command to get the tools from repository. sudo git clone

4. cd to vmware-tools-folder cd vmware-tools-patches

5. Run the patch sudo ./download-tools.sh

6. Run the following patch sudo ./untar-and-patch.sh

7. Run the complie.sh file sudo ./compile.sh

A good and short solution for me was:

sudo vmware-config-tools.pl

You may be needed to logout&login afterwords.

What problems did you have installing VMWare tools? I had a similar problem. After installing VMWare tools, I followed these instructions: How do I mount shared folders in Ubuntu using VMware tools?

Running the vmware-config-tools.pl ( sudo vmware-config-tools.pl ) again, then rebooting solved the problem. The files are in /mnt/hgfs/[shared folder name]