Server logon failed due to bad username or password.

[macrochip]

I'M going nuts here. I am running a server with open suse 11.1 64 bit. With newly installed VMware server 2.0 (Which I can logon to remotely and configure machines no problem) and a newly installed VMware vCenter converter stand alone server and client installed(version 4). If I try to connect from a remote machine to the server with the client software I get the above error. I have tried root and other users and still cannot get it to work with windows 2000 or XP or local linux OS. I went ahead and uninstalled the Converter server and reinstalled with client and can connect from the client to the server if I select the radio box 'connect to local server'. Works like a champ. But if I choose enter IP address and put root with password I get the above error. I read on one blog somewhere that the SSH root login must be enable in the sshd_config file. I did that and still nothing. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!!! This is nuts I have the firewall turned off what settings can I make to get this to work I don't care if its totaly un secure, Ill uninstall the converter when I am done anyway. PLEASE HELP this would make my weekend much much better.

THANKS!!!!

[vmweathers]

Please clarify what you are trying to actually do. Linux P2V? If so then you need an ESX box, we cannot P2V to VMware Server.

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[VMware Community Member]

I have the same problem as above "Bad user name or password"

I use the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client on a WinXP and try to connect remotely to a linux box with installed the linux version of the vCenter Converter (server only) listening on 444

I checked netstat and the linux box is listening on that port....

[travlarson80]

vmweathers - I think I am trying to do the same thing that macrochip is trying to do and running into the same issue.

Our main goal is to convert a Windows 2003 physical machine to a virtual machine. We have an Ubuntu 8.04 server running VMWare Server 2.0 on it. We completed the VMware vCenter Converter Client-Server installation with no problems on this same server. We installed the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone agent and client on the Windows 2003 machine. When we open up the Converter Standalone app we get a window that asks for "IP Address / Name:", "User name:" & "Password:". It's after we enter this info when we get the "Server logon failed due to a bad name or password".

I am positive the client can reach the server as if we enter a "dummy" IP address we get the expected "Failed to connect to server. Check if the converter server is running on this computer." error.

There is no firewall between the Windows client and Linux server.

What are we doing wrong? Is this a bug?

[pimento]

Hi, I'm getting the same error. I installed converter 4.0.0 onto a CentOS 4 box that is running VMWare server 1.0.4 in order to convert some of the VMs running on there to a new ESXi 4 box that we're playing with. Installed as root user, all default settings kept, I can ssh in to the box as the root user but I can't log into Converter remotely. There is a firewall between the login and the destination but there's no logs indicating it's causing any problems. Here's the end of the converter log:

User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'

HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive:

true (PresetContentLength -1)

HTTP Response: Complete (processed 1491 bytes)

User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'

HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive:

true (PresetContentLength -1)

System PAM libraries are unusable: libpam.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

directory

Failed to authenticate user root

Event[22]

User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'

HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive:

true (PresetContentLength -1)

HTTP Response: Complete (processed 573 bytes)

It mentions PAM libraries, but the files are all there.. is there anywhere I should check to see where it's looking for them?