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Linux Guests on Windows 10 Host can not access shared files

Greetings!

I'm running Workstation 15 on my windows 10 Pro laptop. It's a preinstall that came from Dell, and not a "clean" install of Windows 10.

I have currently six (and counting) Linux guests that can not access shared folders after the Linux guest reboots.

I'm successful in initially setting up the shared folder, and under /mnt/hgfs on the Linux guest the shares show up.

However once I reboot the linux guest, the shares disappear, even though "always enabled" in checked.

The /mnt/hgfs folder remains, its just empty.

At one point I was able to run a command in terminal, and it indicated that the shares are still there, just the GUI couldn't see them.

I have a suspicion it's something on the windows side, since every linux distro I try is showing the same problem.

So far I've tried the following distros.

Mageia 6

Opensuse 15.1

Ubuntu 19.10

Kubuntu 19.04

Kubuntu 19.10

Fedora 31 (KDE)

Incidentally, on my main desktop that runs Linux, every OS, Windows or Linux that I run as a VM has no problems with shared folders.

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xishengzhang
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Hello, ScottyK

Thanks for your posting here.

I am assuming the open-vm-tools were installed on linux guest. Could you please refer to VMware Knowledge Base , which should be helpful for your case I think.

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xishengzhang
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Hello, ScottyK

Thanks for your posting here.

I am assuming the open-vm-tools were installed on linux guest. Could you please refer to VMware Knowledge Base , which should be helpful for your case I think.

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ScottyK
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That did it! Thanks for the link, I'll go update my other Linux guests...

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