Sidhartha wrote: Before I try that, would you know if the attached files in that link will work the current VMWare Tools version? It seems to have updated since that post was written.
If you want to use the current version of VMware Tools, VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360.tar.gz (VMware Workstation 9.0.2), (and I would)then you can use the vmtoolspatch Bash Shell Script I wrote in Re: File sharing on Player betw host and guest doesn't work on Ubuntu 13.04. Note that while is says it's for Ubuntu 13.04 nonetheless it does work in Linux Mine 15 to patch the two files that were previously patched and without the need for the tarballs that were attached to Re: VMtools installation problem on Ubuntu 13.04 which were from an older version of VMware Tools. Just uninstall VMware Tools then extract the VMwareTools-9.2.3-1031360.tar.gz file to /tmp as normal then execute the script, then install VMware Tools.