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I have installed vmware toolbox in Ubuntu (guest OS). I tried to share a location from the settings of the virtual machine. But when I click Ok, the following error in thrown in the host (Win 7) OS.

Unable to update run-time folder sharing status: Unknown error.

The location is not showing up in /mnt/
What could be the reason?

P.S I have vmhgfs process running in my Ubuntu VM.

I was following the how-to-share-folders-with-your-ubuntu-virtual-machine-guest method from howtogeek.com

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  • Sounds like the error is caused by windows and not by Ubuntu - why are you posting in askubuntu.com?
    – evgeny
    Nov 29, 2010 at 1:10
  • I see you asked same question on SuperUser :P Run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure vmware" to see if there are any errors when building drivers for vmware.
    – danizmax
    Nov 30, 2010 at 10:42
  • I have another problem. I have enable sharing the folder and mounted it. Still I am not seeing anything in the Ubuntu. THere is no shared folder.
    – mbBlogging
    Apr 12, 2014 at 6:00

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1 .Install vmware tools then try

2 .if the vmware tools are installed then run the following command (i got the same error )

apt-get install build-essential linux-headers
vmware-config-tools.pl 

It happens when { build-essential , linux-headers } packages are updated

You have to rerun " vmware-config-tools.pl "

refer to this link for more information

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  • that's my experience
    – One Zero
    Feb 1, 2012 at 12:32

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