@jimblue1
Are you still using 15.5.x on 20.04? I was running 15.5.7 and all was fine until I updated to 20.04.4 (with 5.4-110 kernel) a couple of days ago and rebooted. Now I can't get VM sharing to work. I get "Unable to connect to the workstation server. Please ensure that the server is running and that you are authorized to connect." This is from the Workstation GUI on the localhost; I haven't bothered to try remotely. UFW is disabled, BTW.
It appears the Github repository you linked to only pertains to networking kernel modules, and I don't think they are my problem as both modules load and my VMs can connect to the outside world. My only problem is getting shared VMs to work.
I've checked, and vmware-hostd is running and pegging a CPU to 100%; I just can't connect to it.
I tried reinstalling 15.5.7, but that didn't help. Additionally, I wasn't able to find where VMware stores the settings for the shared VM component (VMware Workstation Server) to verify that my settings were stored correctly during the new install. In the GUI the only field populated is the connection port. The storage location field is blank and not editable, neither when sharing is enabled or not.
Any insight or suggestions would be appreciated.
