Mapping shared drive on VMware in Mac

[J1mmy]

I am working on an iMac in Windows with VMware installed running a virtual environment of OSX. I have shared a folder the VMware on windows which I can access on the mac VMware Player, however, I need this to show up as a local drive/attached storage, or at least a network drive.

How can I achieve this?

[GroundZero3]

What mode do you have the network card in? Bridged will give it an ip address as if it was its own machine on the network.

To map out a network share
Mac OS X Map a Network Drive - ITwiki

Not sure about osx but if you have the vmware tools installed in the guest os you can just move files in and out of the guest vm by dragging the files over. Does that in vmware on windows if i remember correctly


I see you are running osx in vmware (which the tools dont work because osx isnt supported for vmware), either way the same instructions apply because im that awesome

[J1mmy]

Since my post I got the drive to show as network storage, so its mapped at least. Now, I need OSX to see this as a local physical drive with a letter. It'll probably need some third party software, but I don't know what available for macs. I know that in Windows there was something called Netdrive that could do this, does anything exist for OSX. Google give pulled out a bunch of software that basically mapped it in a different way, no letter assigned.

[GroundZero3]

Sorry cant help you with that, what are you trying to accomplish exactly?

[J1mmy]

I am trying to make the mac OS think that the mapped drive/server is actually a local attached drive, so as in another HDD.

Reason is that the institution has its backup software that only backsup data locally, or on external HDDs, not on mapped networked drive. So we need to try and make the mac see this mapped drive as a local one, using third party software, if it exists.