VMWare Fusion and SMB share

[jlc1978]

I just setup Fusion since I am tired of Parallels' constant "Upgrade Now" nags and have run into one issuewhen using SMB to share folders between MacOS and Fusion. I have setup my folders to allow sharing in Settings, and most folders work as planned. However, My Documents and Downloads gives me an error. It shows the MacOS IP address and the file path, but says the folder is unavailable. I'm not sure why some folders are accessible and those aren't. As far as I can tell all folders have same share settings.

 

[mattspace]

I just setup Fusion since I am tired of Parallels' constant "Upgrade Now" nags and have run into one issuewhen using SMB to share folders between MacOS and Fusion. I have setup my folders to allow sharing in Settings, and most folders work as planned. However, My Documents and Downloads gives me an error. It shows the MacOS IP address and the file path, but says the folder is unavailable. I'm not sure why some folders are accessible and those aren't. As far as I can tell all folders have same share settings.

What's the Guest OS in Fusion?

I found, for example with a Snow Leopard guest and a Ventura host, the write performance from the guest to host using standard SMB with the Ventura system's filesharing was unusably slow; I effectively couldn't save files out from workflows - 5+ minutes to save a 1mb file.

However, using VMWare's built in folder sharing feature (VMWare Tools, IIRC), everything worked at full speed.

 

[jlc1978]

What's the Guest OS in Fusion?

I found, for example with a Snow Leopard guest and a Ventura host, the write performance from the guest to host using standard SMB with the Ventura system's filesharing was unusably slow; I effectively couldn't save files out from workflows - 5+ minutes to save a 1mb file.

However, using VMWare's built in folder sharing feature (VMWare Tools, IIRC), everything worked at full speed.

Win11ARM

It's jus od that some folders are accessible and others not and all appear to have he same permissions.

I've tried reinstalling VMWare tools, even did a new clean install of the VM and Win11ARM to the same results.