Installed Ubuntu 14.04 Guest and updated and all good.
Followed instructions on this page and almost all good
http://theholmesoffice.com/how-to-share-folders-between-windows-and-ubuntu-using-vmware-player/
Ran this command and it shows the drives and folders that I defined as Shared-Folders
vmware-hgfsclient
Ran this and it put shortcuts on the desktop
ln -s /mnt/hgfs/shared-directory ~/Desktop/Name-of-the-folder {edit} Yes, I used the real Shared Folder names
If I double click on the shortcut OR try to copy a file to it from Ubuntu, I get
This link cannot be used because its target “/mnt/hgfs/shared-directory” doesn't exist.
Where am I going wrong?
And, how do I make it work?
Also /mnt/hgfs is empty even with Ctrl-H
Also edited the fstab file as per...
VMware Workstation 10 Documentation Center
.host:/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults 0 0
Rebooted Ubuntu and got an error "Error mounting hgfs - S=skip, M=manual fix."
I skipped.