Guest operations are not allowed for the anonymous user on this virtual machine

[shrikant169]

Hi,

After a lot of trying i've finally managed to connect to a VM in the VMware Server 2.0.2

However i get the error "Guest operations are not allowed for the anonymous user on this virtual machine" when i try to run notepad.exe. I think some permissions need to be set. So i set Guest and Guests group of users to be able to administrate the object(VM); but still this error comes.

Can someone pls help me with getting past this error.

Thanks a lot.

[admin]

You need to call VixVM_LoginInGuest() with valid guest OS credentials before calling VixVM_RunProgramInGuest().

[stanguturi]

Check the following note in remarks section at http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/vix18_reference/lang/c/functions/VixVM_RunProgramInG...

• You must call VixVM_LoginInGuest() before calling this function.

-Thanks

Sankar.

[shrikant169]

Hey guys, thanks a lot for your replies.

However when i try to log in i now get "Authentication failure or insufficient permissions in guest operating system".

I am using the default username password: "Administrator",String.Empty (no password). Does it have something to do with permissions then??

Thanks.

-Shrikant

[stanguturi]

> "Authentication failure or insufficient permissions in guest operating system"

This error shows that you are giving incorrect credentials to login to Guest.

Did you try logging to the Guest manually using the credentials Administrator/<empty password" ?

-Thanks

Sankar.

[admin · Accepted solution]

This has come up before on this Forum. Be default, Windows does not allow remote log-ins for accounts without passwords, which prevents VIX from performing guest log-ins in this situation.

You can follow the steps outlined in the following thread to enable remote log-ins for accounts without passwords, or change the account to have a password.

http://communities.vmware.com/message/910606