Webclient on vCenter vApp and Linked Mode?

[SirJayDee]

I  have deployed the vCenter vApp to serve as a web client server (all  other vSphere services are disabled) and it allows me to logon to any of the 2 vCenters that we have but throws "Unable to connect to vCenter Inventory  Service on <FQDN to the other vCenter in linked mode>". Anyone with  experience of using the web client and linked mode vCenters who have  seen this?

[Monberg]

Take a look at these two KB articles:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=201934...

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=201775...

Please tell if it helps!

Regards

Monberg

[SirJayDee]

We discarded the idea of using the web client 5.0 so I never had a chance to try the KB's, but now when we are testing 5.1 and the vCenter vApp to host the web client we see the exact same error message as KB 2019346 describes. But the same account is used for all 4 services listed in the KB, and I have verified that the Windows firewall is off and the ports are open.