Vista - VMRCplus Access is Denied

Has anyone found a resolution to this issue? I've done searches here and on
the net, and while plenty of people are having this problem, there does not
seem to be a resolution.

I had a laptop (XP Pro SP2) on which I had installed VMRCplus 1.7, and was
able to connect to either of two of our servers that host some virtual
machines. Just got a new laptop, also with XP Pro SP2. Installedd the
latest VMRCplus (1.8), but when I try to connect to either of the servers, I
get the error:
Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
I uninstalled 1.8 and installed 1.7, since that had worked on my previous
machine. Still get the same error.

Based on some other posts I've seen, I've been tweaking my IE security
settings, but still no go.

ANY help would be appreciated!

Just found something interesting. When I try to access the VS host machine,
I get the following entries in the Windows Event Viewer on my new laptop:

Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Account Logon
Event ID: 680
Date: 2/2/2009
Time: 4:48:02 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: (my computer name)
Description:
Logon attempt by: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0
Logon account: (the machine running VS)$
Source Workstation: (the machine running VS)
Error Code: 0xC0000064

Immediately after that error, is this one:

Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Logon/Logoff
Event ID: 529
Date: 2/2/2009
Time: 4:48:02 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: (my computer name)
Description:
Logon Failure:
Reason: Unknown user name or bad password
User Name: (the machine running VS)
Domain: (the VS machine's domain)
Logon Type: 3
Logon Process: NtLmSsp
Authentication Package: MICROSOFT_AUTHENTICATION_PACKAGE_V1_0
Workstation Name: (the machine running VS)

Again, this all worked fine on my previous laptop. This new one is running
exactly the same version of Windows XP Pro (with Service Packs and updates),
and I'm running the same version of VMRCplus. The only difference I can see
is that my old laptop was named XYZ1, and the new laptop is named XYZ. I
tried deleting my user account from Virtual Server and re adding it, but
still no go.

What am I missing here?

Thanks





"John Schneider" wrote:

Does ANYONE have ANY ideas about what is going on here? I really miss using
VMRCplus!

"John Schneider" wrote:

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:52:05 -0800, John Schneider
<johnmsch@xxxxxx> wrote:
I have read references to solving VMRC+ problems by installing the
very latest version of DOTNET Framework (some version 3.x).
I am running VMRC+ 1.7 myself with no problems and I don't think I
have installed any updates to .NET. But that is what I have read.


--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

Thanks for the reply Bo, but I'm current on all the .NET frameworks. I'm
running 2.0 SP2, 3.0 SP2 and 3.5 SP1. Just checked for updates, but nothing
is available.

"Bo Berglund" wrote:

..Net Framework 2.0 SP1 should be fine. But more often an Access Denied issue
is caused by Windows Firewall (or any other firewall) blocking return traffic
from the host. For most other access denied errors, the cause was really an
access issue.
There is no recipe for this issue as it may depend on many factors. On
XP/2003 there are hardly ever any issues, on Vista the new security
architecture requires some extra steps.
Anyway, people can check my blog for issues (blogs.technet.com/matthts) or
send me mail with any specifics.

"Bo Berglund" wrote:

I just completed a test, where I first uninstalled all versions of .NET
Framework on my machine. I then did a clean install of 2.0 and still get the
error. Installed 2.0 SP1 and still can't connect.

"Bo Berglund" wrote: