Topic: Vmware Server 2 - cannot add permissions

[trschober]

Hello community!
I have an updated sme server 7.4 and i installed vmware server 2 (VMware-server-2.0.0-122956.i386.rpm) using the method described on the wiki.
Everything works fine, except that i cannot set permissions...whenever i click on it, it will open the window for an instant and then go grey

I already did the permissions "trick" mentioned in vmware's known issues (http://www.vmware.com/support/server2/doc/releasenotes_vmserver2.html#issues), of changing NextAceId to 12 or above.

firebug reports "uncaught exception: vmtn.core.IllegalStateException: Dialog has no owner.", but i cannot find anything in the vmware logs that could help.

anyone got any ideas on getting at least an error log out of vmware?
or anyone that installed vmware server 2 on sme can check the permissions option and see if it works?
since this same binary install in ubuntu works perfectly, I believe this is an SME issue

thanks in advance

[christian]

works fine for me to get to the permission menus, select users, and set permission tick boxes. I didn't try to save it though as it doesn't seem you are getting that far.

Did you try a different browser to see if the issue is still there.

Also I would be suspicious if you recently updated java.

Christian

[trschober]

yes, I tried Firefox (OSX, Linux), Opera (OSX, Linux), and Internet Explorer 7 (Vista). I will try upgrading java, but it doesn't sound right, since vmware server 2 running on ubuntu (same machine that I tried to access my sme server's install) works absolutely fine on the same firefox.
I will also try to remove my current install, download the rpm again and see if that makes a difference.

thanks

[christian]

ok. Nothing else springs to mind but if you haven't already, you should check the log files on the server. I usually find any server related issue in those.

At least you know it does work for someone on 7.4!

C

[JoshuaR]

Out of curiosity, what account are you using to log in the web interface with?

[trschober]

I first tried using "admin" and since it didn´t work, I tried reinstalling and setting it as "root", which gave no positive results either

[christian]

"setting it as root"?

I just installed and then simply use the root user/pass. No mods required AFAIR.

The install is done only from a root shell.

[trschober]

excuse me, I didn't explain myself properly.
During the initial configuration, the script asks what user would you like to use, and i selected "admin". Since doing so resulted in a non-working configuration for me, I uninstalled and reinstalled, but this time setting the user to "root", which didn't work well either.
Yes this was all done from a root shell, using ssh