Non-root users cannot access vmware host share

lianzi2000 · 2018-02-20 04:11:54

I am installing Arch Linux as a vmware guest on VMware® Workstation 14 Pro. Everything seems fine:

On host:
Shared Folders are enabled and the folder is shared as "Host_Home"

On guest
pacman -Sy open-vm-tools
cat /proc/version > /etc/arch-release

vmware-hgfsclient shows the share:
Host_Home

Now create a mount point:
mkdir -p /home/net_shares/host_home
chmod a+w /home/net_shares/host_home
chmod a+x /home/net_shares/host_home

mount:
vmhgfs-fuse -o allow_other -o auto_unmount .host:/Host_Home /home/net_shares/host_home

I can access (as root) the shared directory without any problem:
ls -al /home/net_shares
/home/net_shares
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Feb 18 06:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 18 18:01 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 14 05:56 host_home

So I editted /etc/fstab to add the last entry:
# /dev/sda2
UUID=2d2fa5a5-c73c-41d9-98a1-8b8bccfb398b / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1

# /dev/sda1
UUID=58DA-5862 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2

# /dev/sda4
UUID=0eb543d5-cf5e-4817-a7a9-aed42f7e1279 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2

# /home/net_shares/host_home
.host:/Host_Home /home/net_shares/host_home fuse.vmhgfs-fuse defaults 0 0

and reboot. After reboot I logon as root again and verified that the share is accessible. No problem at all.

But then I created myself a standard user 'shine' which cannot access the shared node:

cd /home/net_shares
ls -al
ls: cannot access 'host_home': Permission denied
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Feb 18 06:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 18 18:01 ..
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? host_home

I have tried:
remove the last entry of /etc/fstab and reboot so that the shared folder is not automatically loaded. Then I ran the mount command again:
vmhgfs-fuse -o allow_other -o auto_unmount .host:/Host_Home /home/net_shares/host_home

it was successful. At this moment both root and shine can access /home/net_shares/host_home without any problem. But after adding back the entry to fstab and reboot, only root can access it but not shine.

Am I missing anything?

TIA

Shine

lianzi2000 · 2018-02-20 14:06:44

bump....Still can't figure out .. any help is appreciated...

Thanks,

Shine

gjaltemba · 2018-02-21 03:37:12

Try with allow_other

# /home/net_shares/host_home
.host:/Host_Home    /home/net_shares/host_home    fuse.vmhgfs-fuse allow_other  defaults    0 0

Last edited by gjaltemba (2018-02-21 04:01:05)

jasonwryan · 2018-02-21 03:41:56

1. Don't bump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ct#Bumping

2. Use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

lianzi2000 · 2018-02-21 23:13:52

gjaltemba wrote:

Try with allow_other

# /home/net_shares/host_home
.host:/Host_Home    /home/net_shares/host_home    fuse.vmhgfs-fuse allow_other  defaults    0 0

That worked, thanks a lot! Indeed, I learned something

Shennan

Arch Linux

#1 2018-02-20 04:11:54

Non-root users cannot access vmware host share

#2 2018-02-20 14:06:44

Re: Non-root users cannot access vmware host share

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