Your problem sounds more like a bug in VMware and as it is a paid product I
would ask them about it.
It sounds like VMware is not passing the USB devices on.
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Could not open /proc/bus/usb/devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156085
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine
Just add this line to the bottom of the /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-proposed main multiverse
universe
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
scroll to the bottom and add this line.
save and exit
You have to enable the proposed updates but I would only update the samba
packages though through synaptic.
The package will get pushed into main soon though if you can be patient.
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Samba returns NT_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED when trying to view list of shares
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472681
Wow, that was very fast. Was this a package already in the system?
I can confirm that the package in proposed fixes the issue in both smbclient
and in nautilus browsing.
Good work, I have attached the output of the smbclient command so you
can compare if you like.
** Attachment added: "smbclient