CentOS - Jan 2008 - vmware question

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?

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William Warren 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?
Check to be sure xinetd is running and the port is open. And in
my case, running VMWare Server the port is 902(default), not 904.

netstat -an | grep LISTEN | grep 902

Likely xinetd isn't running.

nate

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