I'm one of those lucky people who isn't seeing any mounts under /mnt/hgfs. It is a fresh install of Ubuntu I just dloaded a few hours ago.
I added the shares via the VMWare menu option and rebooted countless times.
Here's a list of things I've tried to fix the problem:
1) trying to mount
% vmware-hgfsclient
share
% sudo mkdir /mnt/hgfs/share
% sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/share /mnt/hgfs/share
Error: cannot mount filesystem: No such device
2) removing and reinstalling open-vm-tools:
sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
... mounting after this makes no difference
3) ...installing vm-dkms (whatever that is)
sudo apt-get install open-vm-dkms
... mounting after this makes no difference
4) clobbering the vmhgfs and reinstalling via the perl script:
sudo vmware-config-tools.pl -d --clobber-kernel-modules=vmhgfs
... mounting after this makes no difference
5) checking to see if the vmhgfs process is running
lsmod | grep vmhgfs
...nothing
6) trying to start modprobe vmhgfs
modprobe: FATAL: Module vmhgfs not found.
7) trying to edit the /etc/init.d file ... but I don't have an /etc/init.d file
I'm pretty much fried at this point. I've read scores of messages and nothing works.
Ideas that would help?
Thanks,
PT