Just upgraded to Natty this morning. I know, I should have waited until VMware updated Fusion for it, but I was impatient. :-) I can't seem to get Shared Folders working now... anybody have this working, and if so, what's the trick?
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Just managed it.
Some of the VMware Tools modules supplied with VMware Fusion 3.1.2 seem to have problems compiling under 11.04. I'm a programmer, but rather than trying to fix them (which could become a huge time-sink), I thought I'd try the open-vm-tools package, since that's available for 11.04 and should be essentially a precompiled version of the same thing.
It didn't work at first, but I found this page describing the proper way to install them -- you apparently have to install open-vm-dkms first (not sure why, I'd think it would auto-install as a dependency, but it didn't). After that, install open-vm-tools. Then in the VMware Fusion settings, turn OFF Shared Folders, then turn them back on.
After that, my shared folders appeared in /mnt/hgfs as normal. :-)
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