I am new to the virtual world but not to software. I installed Suse 10.3 64bit as guest OS under VMWare WS 6.0.2 per the hints provided here, and after trying a 2nd time, I finally got a shared VMware folder to show up in Suse's /mnt/hgfs directory. Halleluja and thanks to the contributors in this community. What strikes me as amazingly hard to believe is that just a trivial defect in VMware has been around since 2005 apparently and has not been fixed. I was the one who recommended to our management that we buy 10 copies of VMware WS for our team instead of using the free Server app, but now it appears, having gone for the free software might have been the smarter choice....