[SOLVED] Accessing .TIB from vmware-host VM share folder

Hi all,
My OS is MAC OSX and to be able to run ABR 11a, I run Windows 7x32 through VMWare Fusion.
My huge .TIB file is located within MAC OSX folder, and because of this, I need to "share" the MAC folder so that it can be read within Windows 7x32 VM.
The problem is, ABR 11 unable to read \\vmware-host\ folder...
I tried to map \\vmware-host\ to specific drive (Y: for example) but still unaccessible from ABR.
Anyone know how to access \\vmware-host\ share folder from ABR?
Thanks

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(Just in case - the same is for vmware workstation running on a Widnows host). Mapping drives support is not implemented in ABR11 yet. May be will work if you share is an SMB share.
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Thanks Fedor!
I found a resolution using Windows mklink (Windows Symbolic Link creator) command.
The following is what I've done:
- mklink /d
For example:
- mklink /d c:\temp \\vmware-host\TIB\
I hope this helps everyone else who wants to utilise VMWare and want to import Acronis TIB
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Nice workaround. However it's only for Vista and above, as symbolic links are not available in XP (or Server 2003)
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Yup indeed, I wish Acronis allow recovery from network drive ^_*
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Rats! I had so hoped your little mklink trick for ABR would get me past the Acronis TI issue described at https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-2018-forum/please-help-vmware-guest-backup-host-share wherein Acronis True Image won't write backups to a VMware Workstation guest VM's accessible directory on the VMware host machine. Alas: TIH2019 won't even recognize a Windows symbolic directory link as a directory that it can "see."
Back to the drawing board...
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This didn't fix my problem. When I tried to use a .tib file in the linked folder. I received a network error. I'm using Acronis 2019.
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