How do I mount shared folders (win7 host) in Ubuntu (guest) using VMware(tools v6)

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Published on 2011-03-06T17:22:09Z Indexed on 2012/03/26 23:40 UTC
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Experts. I've successfully installed VMware tools for Ubuntu. Everything seems to work fine, but shared folders were not mounted automatically.
How do I get them to work?

If I run vmware-hgfsclient in terminal, I get the list of shared folders, but ls -l /mnt/hgfs is empty. Actually there's no hgfs dir in /mnt. I know I should probably use the vmware-hgfsclient tool, but I realy don't know how.

P.S. I wouldn't ask if I could understand the vmware-hgfsclient help I've read.

Any suggestions?

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