[17.6.0-24238078] Users is not a valid user or group.

[dukgeox]

Installer file is VMware-workstation-full-17.6.0-24238078.exe

The error I get is:

An error occurred while applying security settings. Users is not a valid user or group. This could be a problem with the package, or a problem connecting to a domain controller on the network. Check your network and click Retry, or Cancel to end the install.

Retry does not work, keeps looping to Retry again.

[dukgeox]

VMware-workstation-full-17.5.2-23775571.exe is working perfectly. Keep using this version until another update comes along.

[Ricky Tigg]

Error confirmed. The previous version 17.5.2 was successfully installed on Windows 11 v. 23H2. So there is not just a new feature that this version 17.6 might have introduced, but also a consequent issue, since making the installer not operational. 

[Luis Gavira]

The same problem !!!! any solution?

[Ronan PLANTEC]

Same problem on Windows 11 23H2.

[Jair Hnatiuk]

Hello!

I've the same error and just got the solution!

My Windows installation is in SPANISH, so the group "users" didn't exists (there was an "usuarios" instead).

So i've created the "Users" group in Windows and added myself.

Voilà!

Hope this helps.

Jair 

[Celso Ferrreira]

Uses command prompt

net localgroup /add "Users"

net localgroup /add "Authenticated Users"

[Siegfried Zeilinger]

Worked like a charm, thank you!

[NEEMIAS LACERDA LEAL]

Thank you, works here!!