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BradI100
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Uploading VM to ESX host "Upload failed: Unexpected authentication request" ?

Hi all,

I have a support ticket in with vmware, but thought I'd ask here while I'm waiting to hear back.

I used Workstation 9 to download a guest vm to my win7 host PC to do some configuration on it.  The download function worked just fine.

After I configured the guest, I wanted to upload it to our ESX host.  Every time I try, I get this error:

Upload failed: Unexpected authentication request: vi://vcenter/.

I am using the domain and vcenter administrator account to do this.  I've tried logging out and back in.  I've got explicit rights via VMWorkstation's Permissions settings as well.  But each time, I get this error message.

Any ideas on where to look from here?

Update: uploading directly to the esx host (without using vcenter) appears to work just fine.

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