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So this feels like one of those common problems where the suggested solutions just fail to apply to my situation.

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 installation running on wmplayer 12 under windows 7. I have the shared folder option set to 'always enabled' but I cannot access the shared folder on the host.

When I try to mount folder I get the following error:

# mount vmware-hgfsmounter .host:/svn /mnt/hgfs
ERROR: cannot mount filesystem: No such device
  • The mount point /mnt/hgfs exists.
  • I have successfully cun vmware-config-tools.pl and build the hgfs module without error.
  • I have installed open-vm-tools and it can be restarted without error.
  • vmware-hgfsclient lists the svn folder.

I have previously had luck using the suggestions from the third answer in this thread (but without any luck this time): How do I mount shared folders in Ubuntu using VMware tools?

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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Kenneth
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Using that source: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2510025#2510025

I composed joined command:

sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install git; sudo git clone https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git; cd vmware-tools-patches; sudo ./download-tools.sh; sudo ./untar-and-patch.sh; sudo ./compile.sh

After that you will see shared folder. Keep in mind, at the time of command executing, dozen of vmware tools different versions are download and installed and it takes around 1 hour.

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Yuri Sn.
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