I installed Windows 8 on Fusion 4.1.4, running OS X 10.8.2. I cannot access shared folders or mirrored folders.
The message says "Windows cannot access \\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Desktop. Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try to indentify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose. Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not found."
I have gone to Virtual Machine/Settings and turned everything off, restarted Fusion and turned everything on. That did not help.
I have read posts about installing VM Tools. I have no idea what VM Tools are or how to install them.
How to access the shared folders?
Virtual Machine/Install VM Tools is grayed out.
Windows 8 is not officially supported by Fusion 4, you can try Fusion 5 instead.
OK, Fusion 5 is installed. I still cannot access shared folders.
Did you install the VMware Tools? The tools can be installed from the the VMware Fusion (menu bar) ->Virtual Machine->Install VMware Tools. Then you should be able to share your Mac file with Windows Guest VM by File sharing(VMware Fusion (menu bar) ->Virtual Machine->Settings->Sharing).
Here the same! Fusion 5 and the VMWare Tools are installed!!
Is this a bug?
With Windows 7 i can access Shared Folders automatically
This is so bad. I'm using Windows 8 on VMware Fusion 6 on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and I still get the error message the network path was not found when I try to assign a drive letter to a shared folder.