I've been searching for an answer to this for a few hours now but haven't seen just this problem. Maybe my search prowess is waning, I dunno...

I have VMWare Server 2.0.1 installed on a Windows Server 2003 R2 machine. The server also has IIS running on it. VMWare Server has a single VM on it which is the Gentoo minimal install CD... I'm just booting it from an .iso. I can use the web interface for Server and the Remote Console just fine on the host machine.

My laptop is a Vista machine. Up until about 6 hours ago I was able to run the Remote Console without any issue. I rebooted the Gentoo VM from the command line while in the Remote Console on this laptop and ever since then the Remote Console has not been able to connect. Well, that's not entirely true, it did connect once, I disconnected, tried to connect again and it failed. My error message is:

"Unable to connect to the MKS: Cannot connect to the host Logan5: A connection attempt failed becasue the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed becasue the connected host has failed to respond."

At one point after reinstallation of the Remote Console on the laptop the device icons in the status bar of the Remote COnsole wouldn't even come up but that was resolved after rebooting the laptop.

What I've done:

• Unistall / reinstall of the Remote Console on my laptop

• Delete and recreate the VM

• From my laptop to the host server "telnet logan5 902" returns "220 VMware Authentication Daemon Version 1.10: SSL Required, ServerDaemonProtocol:SOAP, MKSDisplayProtocol:VNC ,"

• I have disabled FW and AV on the laptop & server with no difference.

• I can ping and such all over the place from both the laptop and server, the guest OS is not configured with the right resolv.conf info and such so I can't ping or tracerotute anywhere but the Internet.

• Spun my wheels searching for an answer

Has anyone run into this? Have a pointer in the right direction?

Thanks in advance - Chris