[CentOS] vmware question

William Warren hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Mon Jan 28 14:04:02 UTC 2008


that's what i missed.  I misunderstood the directions.  Now i know in 
the hostname to put :<port> in there.  Let me reinstall vmware and try 
it again.

Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2008 10:46 PM, William Warren
> <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
>> I am running Centos 5 64 bit.  For somer reason i cannot get the windows
>> client to connect to the server.  The port is set to 904 as per the
>> install but when i try to connect to the server i get the error the
>> machine is actively refusing it.  I do not have a firewall on and the
>> apache server and everything else is running.  I can check the status
>> webpage in my browser just fine.  Any ideas?
> 
> Are you specifying to connect to port 904 from the Windows client
> (VMware Server Console, I assume)?  For example, if your server is at
> IP 192.168.0.100, specify 192.168.0.100:904 in the server address box
> (likewise, if you connect with a name, just put :904 after the name).
> 902 is the standard port.  However, 902 is allocated in /etc/services
> already, so VMware bumps it up to 904.  If you want to change this,
> edit /etc/services to comment out the two 902 lines, then rerun
> vmware-config.pl and tell it to run on port 902.  Then you will not
> need to specify the port explicitly.
> 
> Jonathan
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