I'm using VMWare 12 on a Windows 10 machine to run a Ubuntu 16.04 OS. Due to some testing I need to share files using a shared folder.

So far I've enabled the folder sharing on the virtual machine, selected the folder to share (it is in the main C:/ drive on Windows) and enabled folder sharing on my private network. However, I still cannot find the shared folder under /mnt. In fact there's not even the /hgfs folder.

How can this be and how can I solve it?

In case I cannot solve it, is there a better way to share files with the host than a shared folder?

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Using that source:

I composed joined command:

sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install git; sudo git clone ; cd vmware-tools-patches; sudo ./download-tools.sh; sudo ./untar-and-patch.sh; sudo ./compile.sh

After that you will see shared folder. Keep in mind, at the time of command executing, dozen of vmware tools different versions are download and installed and it takes around 1 hour.

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