Hello I installed ubuntu 25.04 in vmware on windows 10 desktop PC. I enabled shared folders through vmware desktop. I have installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop packages. I’ve enabled share folder through advanced sharing windows as well. I don’t know what else to do. Is vmware broken or something?
I might not be the best poster for this topic (Not a vmware user), but is there anything showing here:
vmware-hgfsclient
There might a step or two missing.
On the Ubuntu machine is there a mount for shares in '/etc/fstab`.
.vmhgfs-fuse /mnt/hgfs fuse defaults,allow_other 0 0
That is an example.
you may need to run the command
vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other -o uid=<your_user_id>
to manually mount the shared folders. And if you don’t know your user ID run:
id -u me
1000
###Me is my user. 1000 is the ID.
Sorry I’ve been a bit busy elsewhere.
its okay but with previous versions of ubuntu and workstation 16.x versions shared folders worked flawlessly but what has happened since ?
I couldn’t say, I’m not a vmware user. 
But I have helped others on that method. 
this is what shows in my etc/fstab
Have you tried any of the above suggestions yet?
manually mount the shared folders.
vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other -o uid=<your_user_id>
Remember to change <your_user_id> to the real ID
Yes, and nothing seems to be working. I’ve installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop in fedora 42 then uninstalled it. Then installed vmtools that is bundled together with vmware linx itself, that too failed. What the heck is going on with shared folders with vmware ? there’s something seriously wrong with vmware
