Re: [sshfs] [Bug?] sshfs failed to work with VMWare shared folder [SOLVED]

[chrysn <ch...@fs...>]

On 2007-01-26 06:48, Luo Yang (James) <yluo@cs...> wrote:
> I was just running VMWare Workstation for Linux (using FC4 with kernel
> 2.6.11), and trying to use its "shared folder" to access a well-mounted
> sshfs, but nothing was shown up in the guest OS (Win2K Pro). However,
> VMWare claimed that their "shared folder" can be used with any
> network-mounted fs. Both VMWare 5.5.1 and 6.0 beta suffer from this 
> problem.
>
> As suggested, strace has been tried, but nothing interesting can be
> found from the log. (even no opendir() or readdir()) If letting strace
> follow VMWare's mutiple processes, the guest OS will fail to start. Once
> I suspected that the reason is wrong uid/gid, but even after overriding
> with "-o uid=XXX" and "-o gid=YYY", nothing has changed. Is there any
> other possible reason or hint that why this could happen?

i just experienced the same problem; it turned out that -o allow_other 
is required.

regards
chrysn

ps: sorry for not replying properly; the source forge archive [1] didn't 
give me a message id.

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