Go to VM/ Settings.... or Ctrl+D in VMware Workstation.
Under Virtual Machine Settings go to Options
Click on Shared Folders and click on Always Enabled and set the path of the shared folder from Windows.
To check to see if Ubuntu is aware that there is a shared folder available run this command in a terminal vmware-hgfsclient
Now all we have to do is to re install the VMWare config tools.
Tools will be mounted as below:
Open and copy the the VMWareTools.gz to desktop and extract it.
Open terminal, type sudo space and drog drop the vmware-config-tools.pl from extracted folder.
Follow the prompts, accepting the default values (press Enter)
Share folder will be available under Other Locations/ Computer/ mnt/ hgfs/ SharedFolder
Under Virtual Machine Settings go to Options
Click on Shared Folders and click on Always Enabled and set the path of the shared folder from Windows.
To check to see if Ubuntu is aware that there is a shared folder available run this command in a terminal vmware-hgfsclient
Now all we have to do is to re install the VMWare config tools.
Tools will be mounted as below:
Open and copy the the VMWareTools.gz to desktop and extract it.
Open terminal, type sudo space and drog drop the vmware-config-tools.pl from extracted folder.
Follow the prompts, accepting the default values (press Enter)
Share folder will be available under Other Locations/ Computer/ mnt/ hgfs/ SharedFolder
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