This is a script to create to automate the mounting of the vmware workstation share drive

vmware_mount_dir.sh

#!/bin/bash
# @Author: Elephantatech 
# @github: https://github.com/elephantatech
# @Createddate: September 8th 2016
# @Disclaimer: This is not my solution I found it online at http://askubuntu.com/a/781314.
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# May way of solving this issue is to resort to vmhgfs-fuse installed with open-vm-tools.
# Either mount locally using vmhgfs-fuse .host:/$(vmware-hgfsclient) ~/some_mountpoint or globally using 
#   sudo mount -t fuse.vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /mnt/hgfs -o allow_other. 
#
# To then make mounting globally persistent add the following line to your /etc/fstab:
#   .host:/ /mnt/hgfs fuse.vmhgfs-fuse allow_other 0 0
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# On Windows Desktop Host I added d drive as shared folder on vmware workstation sharefolder setting on the vm
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# Now we Create directory in users /home directory on ubuntu
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mkdir /home/User/sharefolder
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# Now mount drive using open-vm-tools
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vmhgfs-fuse .host:/$(vmware-hgfsclient) /home/User/sharefolder/