How to remove the Shared Folders feature of VMWare Tools
By SuperUser Account on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:54 PM
There are known problems with performing certain Active Directory tasks with DCs running on VMWare, such as DC promotion and trust establishment. This article provides instructions on how to remove the shared folder feature, which is part of VMWare Tools.
The problems caused by the Shared Folders feature of VMWare are well documented elsewhere, including:
http://www.activedir.org/article.aspx?aid=75
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2005/11/14/60.aspx
http://blog.baeke.info/blog/_archives/2006/1/30/1733216.html
The problem appears to be common to a number of VMWare products, including Workstation, GSX Server and ESX Server. I haven't checked the latest product versions, so it may have been resolved by now.
The steps for resolution (with screenshots) are shown in the attached document. The document is in Word format.
Tony
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