Dear Amanda,
Thanks for the reply.
Firstly, OSX 10.11 (El Capitan) seems to be Unix not Linux. In fact, by doing some research, I found that an organisation called The Open Group seems to be responsible for certifying whether an OS is Unix-like/compatible, and OSX 10.11 has Unix 03 certification (but I don't know the significance of that).
By the tone of the previous paragraph you'd be right to surmise that I'm not a unix expert (but am also not wholly unfamiliar with unix), and I blithely submitted your suggested command in Terminal, and the response was -bash: vmware-toolbox-cmd: command not found.
Note that before I submitted my query to the VMware Community, I searched the web for a solution and came across advice to submit a similar (if not the same) command as yours, but preceded by (I think) /usr/bin/, and I had to switch to being root first (su - root). But before submitting this (vmware-...) command I navigated to /usr/bin/ (if that was the directory path that preceded the command), and on listing the contents there was no vmware-... command evident, hence I didn't submit the command on that occasion. Being aware of that prior advice and experience, did you also want me to do something like switch to root and execute from a particular directory? If so then I think we might be clutching at straws. The upgrade from 8.0.x to 8.1.0 seems to have disrupted the installation of VMware Tools from its state before the upgrade; and before the upgrade sharing was fine so I assume the installation of Tools was also fine.
