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3 Replies Last post: Nov 30, 2009 1:14 PM by duncanwannama…  

Can't access the converter server remotely posted: Nov 9, 2009 12:52 PM

Click to view damko's profile Lurker 2 posts since
Apr 22, 2008

Hi, I'm Dam and this is my first post in the community.

I installed Converter standalone on a debian lenny. Connecting to the server locally avoiding the tcp based login works perfectly.

At this point it should be possible to go on another client machine
and install just the client side of the application and try to connect
it to the server. Well it
doesn't work at all. I tried with linux and windows client even with
the original ports (80, 443), even locally using the tcp connection on
127.0.0.1 and with different users (root included). I tried to disable
the ssl but there is noway to make it working.

All the time the client pops up this error message: "Server logon failed due to a bad username or password"

On the server side, where the problem seems to be, this is the common error written into the log file:

{noformat}2009-11-09 21:09:09.707 EFCDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService' User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
2009-11-09 21:09:09.707 EFCDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService' HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)
3 2009-11-09 21:09:09.707 EFCDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService' HTTP Response: Complete (processed 1491 bytes)
2009-11-09 21:09:09.751 EECDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService' User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
2009-11-09 21:09:09.751 EECDAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService' HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)
3 2009-11-09 21:09:09.751 F04DAB90 error 'App' user,776 Failed to authenticate user root
3 2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'App' eventManager,2037 EventManager Event97
2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService' User agent is 'VMware-client/4.0.0'
2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService' HTTP Response: Client: NeedsContentLength: false UnderstandsChunking: true CanKeepAlive: true (PresetContentLength -1)
2009-11-09 21:09:09.767 F04DAB90 verbose 'Ufa.HTTPService' HTTP Response: Complete (processed 573 bytes)
2009-11-09 21:09:59.705 F3BC46B0 warning 'App' Read timeout after approximately 50000ms. Closing stream UNIX(/var/lib/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone/vmware-converter-server-soap){noformat}{noformat} {noformat}{noformat}Can you help me please?{noformat}{noformat}Best regards{noformat}{noformat}Dam
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Re: Can't access the converter server remotely

2. Nov 24, 2009 5:37 AM in response to: damko
Click to view ingopingo's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Nov 24, 2009
64bit Lenny?
Then take a look in /var/log/auth.log!
Is there a entry like

PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_unix.so): /lib/security/pam_unix.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64


then change in /etc/pam.d/vmware-converter every pam_unix.so to /lib32/security/pam_unix.so

Re: Can't access the converter server remotely

3. Nov 30, 2009 1:15 PM in response to: ingopingo
Click to view duncanwannamaker's profile Novice 4 posts since
Nov 5, 2008
Unfortunately, for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (64-bit), the only PAM module in /lib32/security is pam_ldap.so. I tried copying the 32-bit version of pam_unix.so from another workstation and it gives me this error when I try to authenticate:

Nov 30 15:45:09 uc-host005 vmware-converter: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib32/security/pam_unix.so)
Nov 30 15:45:09 uc-host005 vmware-converter: PAM [error: /lib32/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.8' not found (required by /lib32/security/pam_unix.so)]
Nov 30 15:45:09 uc-host005 vmware-converter: PAM adding faulty module: /lib32/security/pam_unix.so


I have not been able to find an Ubuntu package that contains these 32-bit libraries.

Any one else have any luck?

Duncan

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