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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Registered Microsoft Partner My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17