can't create shortcut to shared folder by VMware /mnt/hgfs

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Dear Team,
I can’t create shortcut to shared folder by VMware /mnt/hgfs as per attached P.S,
does there anyway to create the shortcut?

hgfs
hgfs743×789 56.1 KB

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Hi @Wael-Fakhri

Are you using the open-vm-tools packages from the repository, or did you compile the needed modules from the VMware Tools?

To create a shortcut to a directory inside the hgfs on the desktop

ln -s /mnt/hgfs/Host_Downloads ~/Desktop/Host

2023-09-10_05-47
2023-09-10_05-471033×792 362 KB

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You can also use your file manager to “Bookmark” the directory of course.

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@Masmer
I compiled the needed modules from the VMware Tools

however thank you very much for your support , really appreciated ,

I will try that.

thanks again bro

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thanks @Masmer for your support,

finally I found this command working fine to create shortcut on desktop

sudo ln -s /mnt/hgfs/SHARED-FOLDER /home/HOSTNAME/Desktop

thanks again for your support

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