How to change permission of vmware's shared folder

Question

I'm using ubuntu 16.04 on vmware player. The shared folder is enabled and is visible on /mnt/fghs. But, the owner(root) can't be changed by chown. How to change it? Please, advice me.

Additionally, some person said the owner could be changed after modifying /etc/fstab. But, I couldn't find any information in /etc/fstab like .host :/ /mnt/hgfs vmhgfs defaults 0 0. When I add the line into /etc/fstab file, wmware can't be start up.

Solution 1

probably a little bit late, but anyway.

Firstly, unmount your shared folder:

sudo umount /mnt/hgfs

then run:

vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o uid=1000 -o gid=1000 -o umask=0033

where you should consider change uid and gid to yours. Remember that:

id -u
id -g

will return your current user and group ID.

Take a look to vmhgfs-fuse --help for more options ;)

Solution 2

Resolved. Use allow_other option to grant access.

vmhgfs-fuse -o allow_other .host:/ /mnt/hgfs

see unix.stackexchange.com: vmhgfs-fuse-permission-denied-issue

Comments

[etech]

vmhgfs-fuse .host:/vmware-share-folder-name /myMountLocation -o uid=1000 -o gid=1000 worked for me. Without umask, it just sets everything to 777 it seems.

[Alex]

as mentioned by @etech - parameter umask=0033 defines access-permissions (in octal mode), mask specifies what is not permitted.