Question: I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installed on VMware workstation. I want to copy a file from desktop to usr/scr folder. I tried it the normal way i.e. copy/paste but it doesn't paste in the destination folder. Please help.

Answer: 
If the question is about copying a file from you host system to your virtual machine this link describes drag-n-drop, copy-paste, shared folder and mapping of a virtual disk to the host system:
<https://pubs.vmware.com/workstation-9/index.jsp#com.vmware.ws.using.doc/GUID-6F26D7EF-8D29-46E9-A48E-0BCBB138D333.html>
This is the how you copy a file in a linux terminal:

```
cp <source> <destination>

```

Read more on this page: <http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ucp.htm>

You can also use man to get help and read more about linux-commands:

```
man cp

```

As piojo commented below you need root access to copy a file to the /usr-folder. To get root access you need to login as root-user or perform the copy command as root. Use man to read about su and sudo.

```
man sudo
man su

```