I upgraded Vmware Workstation from version 11.0 to version 11.1 and the "shared folders" option gives a strange result ...
Host: HP 8460 laptop, 16 GBytes ram, 500 GB hard disk
Host OS: Linux Mint 17.0 X64, Mate desktop, all standard updates applied (effective 29 March 2015)
VM Machine (stored locally): Linux Mint 17.0 X64, Mate desktop, all standard updates applied (effective 29 March 2015)
OS Shared folder:
Name "HostFiles"
Path "//home/lewis/documents"
Always shared: yes
Read Only: no
--- Plan "A" ---
Shows up under "Computer" as "VMware, VMware virtual S"
Result: "Unable to mount location. Can't mount file"
no joy
--- Plan "B" ---
access via .... /mnt/hgfs/HostFiles
this seems to work.
