Workstation 8.0.6
Windows 8 64-bit host/ Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit guest
I have never used Linux before but I built a Linux virtual machine which is working fine but I can not get a Shared folder working.
I mapped the shared drive just as I have done for Windows guests and there are no complaints. However when in the Ubuntu file manager the shared folder is nowhere to be found.
Does anyone have a suggestion for what the problem might be.
Thank you.
You can try using command shells as mentioned in the following link :
What kernel are you running? Have you applied any of the third-party patches that might address this issue?
Have a look at: VMware Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776 patch for Linux kernel 3.13 & VMware Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776 patch for Linux kernel 3.14.0
Thank you for your suggestion Scorpion99. Being new to the Linux world I have never heard of Samba. I'll read-up on it. Looking at the link you provided, I'm probably wrong about this but it looked like it was creating a share on the Ubuntu machine. I need need the Ubuntu machine to see the hard drive of the host (Windows).
WoodyZ, the kernel is 3.11.0-19-generic. I looked at the 2 links you provided and I don't know enough to know if they would address my issue or not.
It seems that the Ubuntu machine has the ability to see a Windows network but when Files manager and navigate to the Windows network there is nothing visible so I wonder if it is just a configuration issue or if it is even possible for the Ubuntu guest to see the hard drive on the Windows host?
Thanks again for your input!
I missed it when you said "Workstation 8.0.6", sorry, however the latest release of Ubuntu as a Guest OS officially supported with that version of VMware Workstation 8.0.6 is Ubuntu 12.10. So anything not working with VMware Tools like Shared Folders will require a third-party patch and the ones I linked to are for Linux Hosts running VMware Workstation 10.0.1 not the version and Host OS you're running, sorry.
I'd look at implementing a SMB/CIFS Share in Windows (standard Windows File Sharing) and accessing it via Samba in Linux as Scorpion99 suggested.
keke2 wrote: It seems that the Ubuntu machine has the ability to see a Windows network but when Files manager and navigate to the Windows network there is nothing visible
Have you shared a folder via Windows, not VMware Shared Folders?
so I wonder if it is just a configuration issue or if it is even possible for the Ubuntu guest to see the hard drive on the Windows host?
Yes it possible!
I've found that VMWare tools is not properly installed. Running the vmware tools install tries to install "VMware Host-Guest Filesystem" but then there is a problem where the message is "The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.11.0-19-generic kernel headers". I have tried a couple of solutions for this from discussions but have not been able to resolve it. Does anyone know how to fix this?
You need to make sure that gcc, binutils, make and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed and then running the following command in a Terminal:
sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)/include/linux/version.h
Then try installing VMware Tools
Thanks for your help Woodyz. Since the version of Ubuntu I'm using is not supported in the version of VMWare I have and I don't want to spend money on this yet I'll put this on the back burner for now.