Why can't I access shared folders from host with 1 processor allocated, but I can with 4 processors?

I setup shared folders in the virtual machine settings for access to host files, but it didn't work no matter how many times I reinstalled VMWare Tools, changed the settings for the shared folders and restarted the machine afterwards. I always got the unable to browse the network the network is not present error message, although I had access both to the internet and to my host if I ran my IP address (VM is bridged).Then I realized the machine had only 1 processor allocated and changed it to 4... and IT WORKED! I had the shared files mapped in explorer. I would like to know why that is. Any ideas?

Solution 1:

I think that is an issue specific to your hardware as it not behaving as expected. It is an issue of timing out of scheduling of an event. Shared services seeks time to look up the network discovery and find the content that is shared, decide the protocol for the communication, and then gets content if everything is okay. So it may appear that the CPU times out before this process is completed.

I hope it helps.