Tuesday, 24 August 2021

How to Share a File from Windows host to Dabian Guest in VMware Workstation Pro?

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If you are wondering how can i share a file or Folder from your windows host operating system to a Debian Guest operation system then follow the steps below. 

Go to your windows system and create a folder you wish to share with Guest OS. 


Then go to VMware setting and click on the option tab on the top, 

Now go to shared folder and enable the Folder Sharing. 

Then click on the add button and provide the path of the folder you would like to share with 


Click next and finish the file sharing. Now you would see something like below. 
 

Go to the Debian Terminal and use the following command to check the file is been shared

in the sudo 

cd /mnt/hgfs and enter

now type ls to list the files. 


you can create a symbolic link to your desktop and access the files too 

in the terminal run the following command 

 ln -s /mnt/hgfs/forensics ~/Desktop/myData



Now you can see the shared folder in the Debian. 
 








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