Background: A shared folder is configured in the VMware option, and the Ubuntu Server 18.04 does not have Hgfs folders under/mnt/, let alone shared folders.
Reference: Ubuntu16.04 version of the installation of Vmwaretools and can not mount directory problem resolution
Win7 VMWARE virtual machine CENTOS7 with Windows shared directory Mount:unknown FILESYSTEM TYPE ' Vmhgfs '
1. Tools for implementing host and Virtual machine Shared folders: Vmware-tools installation Issues
The above two articles have mentioned how Ubuntu server installs Vmware-tools
Open-vm-tools should be vmware-tools installed after the file, according to the first article, and installed open-vm-tools-dkms,
2. Still do not see/mnt under the Hgfs folder, so I built a
3. Command-line input vmware-hgfsclient can list shared directories
4.sudo/usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse. host://mnt/hgfs-o Subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other, finally see the Windows shared directory
VMWare, Ubuntu Server 18.04 Shared Folders