Windows 10 client cannot connect to shared folders

[chickgreen]

I'm running VMWare workstation 12.10 over Ubuntu 15.10, with a Windows 10 client.  Within the last few days, something has changed that prevents my Windows client machine from connecting to shared folders from VMWare - I am not getting error messages, or an y notification that there is a problem:  just no connection to a shared folder!  Doea anyone know what might be causing this?

[louyo]

Can you ping the host?

Host firewall blocking?

Did you set up samba on the host?

if so:

What do you get if you try to map a share from the guest?

net use * \\<host ip address>\<share name>

Lou

[huxiang]

Hello,

Welcome to Workstation Community!

Do you mean the "Shared Folders" feature of VMware Workstation (VM settings > Options > Shared Folders)? Or a shared folder on network (as Lou mentioned)?

I guess it's the 1st one based on your description. However, I'd like to double confirm it.

Thanks,

Shawn

[chickgreen]

I'm trying to use te VMWare Shared folders (vmhgfs) - this did work until just slightly before Christmas, and I'm guessing that some Windows update caused a conflict.

[chickgreen]

Tried SMB but I didn't get too far - I'm not entirely conversant with Win10 which wants to use 'homegroups' instead of workgroups.  By the time I got that figured out I was running out of patience, and resorted to using a thumb drive for file transfer.  I do believe that the hist firewall is blocking the SMB packets, and have not recofigured the firewall yet.

[wila · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Please have a look at this thread for VMware Fusion (while that is for Fusion, the feature and thus troubleshooting works the same for Workstation)

Shared Folders - Windows 10 upgrade from 15.11.

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Wil