Re: using shared folders on Ubuntu guest

[Ashish A. <aga...@gm...>]

I installed the Ubuntu package. I got it to work after manually adding the
line:

.host:/                 /mnt/hgfs               vmhgfs  defaults,ttl=5     0
0

to /etc/fstab. But I also had to manually do `mount -a`, since I keep
getting an error on boot up about not being able to mount /mnt/hgfs. Anyone
know how to avoid this on boot up?


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Marcelo Vanzin <mv...@vm...> wrote:

> On 10/11/2010 12:30 PM, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
> > I have just installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-dkms in an Ubuntu guest.
> I
> > also have configured 1 shared folder through VMWare's settings dialog
> box.
> > However, I do not see the shared folder.
> >
> > I was previously using VMWare Tools as provided by VMWare, and shared
> folders
> > would show up in /mnt/hgfs but that seems not to be the location anymore
> > since this mount point was removed from /etc/fstab when I installed
> > open-vm-tools.
>
> Are you installing the Ubuntu packages or did you build open-vm-tools from
> source?
>
> The source package does not provide any startup scripts nor makes any
> modifications to the existing system configuration. So to use it you'd have
> to
> manually add the fstab entries, which should be the same as those the
> VMware
> Tools installer adds.
>
> If you're using the Ubuntu packages, you'll need to file a bug / feature
> request
> in their tracker.
>
> --
> - Marcelo
>
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