Hello,

I shared a folder from my windows machine using VMware player 5.0 into my Fedora image, but I cannot access the directory in Fedora.

I can see that the shared folder is listed using hgfsclient but it is not getting mounted.

# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/ /mnt/shared
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vmhgfs'

Any help is much appreciated.

Further details:

# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.17.3-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 14 19:45:42 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)

# vmware-hgfsclient
shared



Thanks.

Veerasamy.

Is vm-tools properly (fully) installed? (sometimes some parts are disabled) for instance is the *dkms installed? -- i like to use the open-vm-tools in debian/*buntu. but for RHEL i use the official vmware repo for yum installs.

Your mount command seems good except i used sudo. also be sure to use the exact name of the shared folder

sudo mkdir /mnt/shared #be sure to create the folder
sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/sharename /mnt/shared #sharename must be exactly the name of the shared folder.

you may try the vmware-hgfsmounter command.

otherwise i dont see why it would not know "vmhgfs"

vmware tools would not build for me in Debian Jessie, so I also installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-dkms.

In order to get the mount to work I had to 'modprobe vmhgfs'.

I have not yet attempted to use fstab, as often there is timing problems with init.d and I'm also uncertain how/if it works with systemd.

run

$ /usr/bin/vmware-hgfsclient
your_share_name

to see if your share is listed. then
# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/your_share_name /mnt/shared