I'm running lubuntu in a win10 guest machine under vmware workstation 12.5.7 build-5813279. Folder sharing is enabled, the host folder is named and created but ...
- vmware tools can't find the shared folder
- nor can it find a vmware perl script needed to find the shared folder
So evidently vmware tools is broken. But "Update VMware Tools" from the WorkStation Player menu does not deposit a tools installer file on the lubuntu desktop, so there's no installer file to unpack and install.
How do I solve this?