I'm really struggling with logging remotely. I just get login (username/password) incorrect no matter which username I try.
The only thing that works is running vmware& on the server and logging in locally. I've tried installing vmware-console on the server too, and then running it but the same problem occurs. Disabling SSL didn't help either.
After troubleshooting this for several hours now, I enabled vmware-authd logging i /etc/vmware/preferences. The output just shows plain login failure:
Mar 27 02:19:30: app| Log for VMware Server pid=9569 version=e.x.p build=build-22009 option=BETA
Mar 27 02:19:30: app| VMAuthd started.
Mar 27 02:19:30: app| start
Mar 27 02:19:30: app| Connect from 192.168.0.105
Mar 27 02:19:30: app| Connecting via SSL
Mar 27 02:19:30: app| LOGIN FAILURE from 192.168.0.105, username
Mar 27 02:19:30: app| VMAuthdSocketRead: read failed. Closing socket for reading.
Mar 27 02:19:30: app| VMAuthdSocketWrite: writing to a closed socket: 221 Goodbye
Mar 27 02:19:30: app|
Host: Debian testing, 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8 kernel.
Software: Vmware Server build-22088
I had to install ia32-libs package to just get vmware running. I suspect that the login problem might be pam.d related, but I'm not sure how to fix it?
