SoCalRox Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 I have a VMWare Player (current release) VMDK of Windows 8.1 which I created a few days ago. I am running this on Windows 7 Professional. I am trying to share the host's C: and E: drives but it won't work. I have tried reinstalling Tools, reconfiguring the shared folders, and I've tried guilt-trips on it to no avail. I am at a loss as to why I can't get it to see the shared folders. I even turned off the firewall just in case. Nope. Any ideas? I built the VMDK in Player, as a Windows 8.0 machine upgraded to 8.1. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted September 23, 2014 MVC Share Posted September 23, 2014 Trying to share the host, so windows 7? So your trying to share the admin share? Or access it - or creating a new share for all of C? Since vista admin shares are disabled - you have to re-enable with a reg key Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System Name: LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy Data Type: REG_DWORD Value: 1 Or are you trying to share on your 8 VM and trying to access from host or other machines - same issue would happen. Since vista out of the box admin shares are disabled. I have no reason to believe that window 8 reverses this policy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalRox Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Not trying to use admin shares. Just the usual VMWare sharing of the drive with the guest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalRox Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 One more note- the shares worked in Win 8.0 in this VMDK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted September 24, 2014 MVC Share Posted September 24, 2014 Did you reinstall the tools after you upgraded? You are using this player VMware Player 6.0.3 | 01 JULY 2014 | Build 1895310 Ok so trying to duplicate your setup.. Installing 8.0 x64 pro now, will see if shares work with that. Then upgrade to 8.1 and see what happens. edit: Ok so working on 8 Working on updating to 8.1 - might take a bit, doing this remotely to my home machine, etc. 95 Updates to install before can run the 8.1 update ;) edit2: Ok the good news is I was able to reproduce your problem. Upon update to 8.1 the shared vmware folder did not work. I tried just doing a reinstall and picking repair of the tools - this did not work. So I did a complete uninstall of the tools, rebooted the VM. Then reinstalled the tools (complete) then restarted the vm again. And now shazam the shared folder is working again. edit3: Hmmm seems the attach images having some issues?? Will check back later if can see the attached screenshot. But do a complete uninstall of the tools, restart, install the tools, restart and should be working for you again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalRox Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 Sorry to be slow replying- I've been out sick. But yes, reinstalling indeed made it good. All is well! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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