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oligofren
Asked: 2021-10-13 04:34:13 +0800 CST

Why does the VMWare mount point show as read-only even if actually writable?

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This is a bit of a mystery. The hgfs shares all show as read-only, but I have no trouble writing files to them (as I want to). The trouble is that Nautilus refuses to copy files into these folders, as they are marked read-only, even if cp ~/some.file /mnt/hgfs/Downloads poses no problems.

See below for a demo

$ ls -lh /mnt/hgfs/
totalt 304K
dr-xr-xr-x 1 my-user my-user  20K okt.   6 12:35 Dokumenter
dr-xr-xr-x 1 my-user my-user 256K okt.   8 18:02 Downloads
dr-xr-xr-x 1 my-user my-user  28K okt.  12 14:28 Skrivebord

$ echo 123 > /mnt/hgfs/Skrivebord/foo 

$ cat /mnt/hgfs/Skrivebord/foo 
123

$ ls -ld /mnt/hgfs/Skrivebord/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 my-user my-user 28672 okt.  12 14:28 /mnt/hgfs/Skrivebord/

How can I circumvent this so that GUI operations work?

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