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Re: 2.0.5: Upgrade breaks network disk mapping

30. Jul 17, 2009 9:57 AM in response to: jptxs
Click to view steve goddard's profile Hot Shot 171 posts since
Jan 26, 2007
The uninstall and then install gets around an installer issue for upgrading.
That got the drive letter mappings to work at all.
That is totally different from this second issue which even when
the drive mappings do work and are present, the explorer dialog
does not show them in this instance.
Does that help make a distinction between the two issues?
Follow the installer workaround above and you should be fine using drives to
the shared folders.

Steve
Click to view jptxs's profile Novice 7 posts since
Feb 24, 2005
etung and/or steve goddard,

Has there been any official word on PR 422610? Is there some way to track that via the web? I really hope to upgrade to 10.6 soon and I'm afraid that Fusion support in version 2.0.4, which I'm running to avoid this issue, is not going to be there.

Any advice?

Re: 2.0.5: Upgrade breaks network disk mapping

32. Sep 14, 2009 12:24 PM in response to: jptxs
Click to view steve goddard's profile Hot Shot 171 posts since
Jan 26, 2007
Hi there,
Sorry been on vacation for a couple of weeks.

Not any progress that I can see from the installer group. I will ping them and see if they have looked at this or plan too in the short term.
Sorry for delays in this. I don't think there are any ways to view this as it is in an internal database.

Does the uninstall followed by a install of the tools get around this for you?
If so, you can always repeat that process when you want to go to the newest version if you have not heard that the upgrade issue has been addressed.
Steve
Click to view jptxs's profile Novice 7 posts since
Feb 24, 2005
Steve,

I have simply downgraded since there was nothing in 2.0.5 I needed. The only concern I have right now is finding out when (if?) this issue will be addressed in 2.0.5 and also getting an answer about Snow Leopard support for 2.0.4 so that I can upgrade my OS even if this issue is not yet resolved. I asked that on another thread (http://communities.vmware.com/message/1346570#1346570).

Thanks for any insight.
Click to view jptxs's profile Novice 7 posts since
Feb 24, 2005
etung and/or steve goddard,

Has there been any official word on PR 422610? Is there some way to
track that via the web? I really hope to upgrade to 10.6 soon and I'm
afraid that Fusion support in version 2.0.4, which I'm running to avoid
this issue, is not going to be there.

Any advice?

Re: 2.0.5: Upgrade breaks network disk mapping

35. Nov 4, 2009 1:18 PM in response to: jptxs
Click to view steve goddard's profile Hot Shot 171 posts since
Jan 26, 2007
Sadly, our installer guys don't seem to comprehend testing all scenarios or even code inspection.

This installer bug has been fixed in the Fusion 3.0 releases though, and I personally tested it myself, 32 and 64 bit VMs both.

However, did you try the workaround for the installer nonsense? That is, uninstall the VMware Tools using the control panel Add or Remove Programs, reboot VM, do your upgrade to Fusion 2.0.5 and
then install the VMware tools, reboot the VM.

This should then get your network drive mappings working. If you did the above and the drive letter access still fails for some reason, then you are hitting a different bug.

Thanks.
Steve

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