Permission denied to change directory

[RalphyBoy]

Hi,

I login to my esxi 5 host via ssh using putty. I then try to change directory to /vmfs/volumes. I then get 'permission denied' error.

Why is this not allowing me to change directory. I am authenticted as root.

Thanks

[Techstarts]

RalphyBoy wrote:

Hi,

I login to my esxi 5 host via ssh using putty. I then try to change directory to /vmfs/volumes. I then get 'permission denied' error.

Why is this not allowing me to change directory. I am authenticted as root.

Thanks

Can you check the group to which root user is added?

Also worth checking the permission of /vmfs/volumes directory.

[Virtualinfra]

Its strange..

are you able to browse the datastore when you connect the ESXI directly with vsphere client, if your not able to do that then the permission has to given from storage.

But still when you do ssh via putty, with root crendinal it should go to browse cd /vmfs/volume..

is that the ESXi installed like boot with USB, then the VMFS wont be created, if its dont have local disk..

try the below and let us know the out come.

connect ESXi via putty

login with root and password

cd /vmfs/ --enter

what is the result ?