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db_fa
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‎05-20-2019 01:48 AM

Mount problem - file instead of folder

Hello,

I use VMware Pro (14.0.0 build-6661328) to manage Ubtuntu 18.04 LTS.

The path /mnt/hgfs/server shows a shared folder (over VMware) with a lot of files. Now I created a directory "/home/chef/Desktop/synology/" which I want to combine with /mnt/hgfs/server.

I tried this:

sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:/mnt/hgfs/server /home/chef/Desktop/synology/

Now the folder "synology" is a file which can't be opened. With normal clicks over the desktop it shows "This location could not be displayed. You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "synology"". What could be wrong?

This also didn't worked:

sudo mount -t cifs .host:/mnt/hgfs/W /home/chef/Desktop/synology/
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continuum
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Immortal
‎05-20-2019 10:39 AM

If you want predictable results use mount -t cifs instead of mount -t fuse-vmhgfs-fuse.

vmware shared folders  have allways been buggy and I dont expect that this will ever change.


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