
3 Select a folder sharing option.
Option Description
Always enabled
Keep folder sharing enabled, even when the virtual machine is shut down,
suspended, or powered off.
Enabled until next power off or
suspend
Enable folder sharing temporarily, until you power off, suspend, or shut
down the virtual machine. If you restart the virtual machine, shared
folders remain enabled. This setting is available only when the virtual
machine is powered on.
4 (Optional) To map a drive to the Shared Folders directory, select Map as a network drive in Windows
guests.
This directory contains all of the shared folders that you enable. Player selects the drive letter.
5 Click Add to add a shared folder.
On Windows hosts, the Add Shared Folder wizard starts. On Linux hosts, the Shared Folder Properties
dialog box opens.
6 Type the path on the host system to the directory to share.
If you specify a directory on a network share, such as D:\share, Player always attempts to use that path.
If the directory is later connected to the host on a different drive letter, Player cannot locate the shared
folder.
7 Specify the name of the shared folder as it should appear inside the virtual machine.
Characters that the guest operating system considers illegal in a share name appear differently when
viewed inside the guest. For example, if you use an asterisk in a share name, you see %002A instead of *
in the share name on the guest. Illegal characters are converted to their ASCII hexadecimal value.
8 Select shared folder attributes.
Option Description
Enable this share
Enable the shared folder. Deselect this option to disable a shared folder
without deleting it from the virtual machine configuration.
Read-only
Make the shared folder read-only. When this property is selected, the
virtual machine can view and copy files from the shared folder, but it
cannot add, change, or remove files. Access to files in the shared folder is
also governed by permission settings on the host computer.
9 Click Finish to add the shared folder.
The shared folder appears in the Folders list. The check box next to folder name indicates that the folder
is being shared. You can deselect this check box to disable sharing for the folder.
10 Click OK to save your changes.
What to do next
View the shared folder. On Linux guests, shared folders appear under /mnt/hgfs. On Solaris guests, shared
folders appear under /hgfs. To view shared folders on a Windows guest, see “View Shared Folders in a
Windows Guest,” on page 48.
View Shared Folders in a Windows Guest
In a Windows guest operating system, you can view shared folders by using desktop icons.
NOTE If the guest operating system has VMware Tools from Workstation 4.0, shared folders appear as
folders on a designated drive letter.
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