Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the hardware I'm using requires me to run 9.04...
------ Original Message ------ From: mshadle <launch...@mike2k.com> Date: Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 2:35 PM PDT To: t...@mccnet.com Subject: [Bug 112937] Re: vmware server will not connect remotely I went back to 8.04 or so and it works then. Sadly, 9.04 and possibly even 8.10 don't work :( -- vmware server will not connect remotely https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112937 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “ia32-libs” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: this is for the package vmware-server in the commercial repository but this cant be chosen from your list of packages When installing vmware-server there is an error in the file /etc/pam.d /vmware-authd the file is installed as follows: #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient %pamdir%/pam_unix2.so shadow nullok auth required %pamdir%/pam_unix_auth.so shadow nullok account sufficient %pamdir%/pam_unix2.so account required %pamdir%/pam_unix_acct.so however the %pamdir%/ should not be in each line and instead it should read: #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_unix2.so shadow nullok auth required pam_unix_auth.so shadow nullok account sufficient pam_unix2.so account required pam_unix_acct.so This then allows people to remotely connect through vmware server console. Also when installing on feisty server make is a dependency but is not installed so the install fails until make is installed -- vmware server will not connect remotely https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112937 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
