VMRCplus and authentication

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Keith Combs' Blahg — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:35:50 GMT

For those of you running Microsoft Virtual Server , we have a new treat in store for you. Originally

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fgallardo — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:34:09 GMT

Will you enable this app to authenticate? It would be a very usefull thing.

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jholmblad — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:37:01 GMT

Matthts,

thanks for continuing to develop this product.

I would also like the see the capability to enter user credentials prior to connecting to the target Virtual Server. Before I found this thread I resorted to a) examining firewall logs and b) firing up Ethereal to try to figure out what was going wrong.

I have an environment where neither the system hosting VMRCplus nor the system hosting Virtual server are domain joined.

For now I will have to RDP into the system running Virtual Server.

Best Regards

John Holmblad

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fgallardo — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:38:09 GMT

Create a new shortcut to the application and use the RUNAS command:

C:\Windows\System32 runas.exe /u:ENTER YOUR DOMAIN CREDENTIALS(eg. microsoft\bgates) "C:\Program Files\Microsoft VMRCplus\vmrcplus.exe"

VMRCplus versione 1.6

$ClaudioG.Blog = $True — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:15:17 GMT

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GeniusOfVirtualWorlds — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:29:13 GMT

For those of you looking to give non-administrators access to VMRC+ remotely, there is a workaround. The article above indicates that in order to use VMRC+ remotely, the user must be a member of the administrators group of the Virtual Server Host:

"An additional requirement exists in the remote scenario. Virtual Server runs with Local System identity. In the remote scenario this requires the VMRCplus user to be a member of the local Administrators group on the Virtual Server host."

If you place the user in the "Distributed COM Users" group, you can avoid giving them administrator privileges to the Virtual Server Host.

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cnicho — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:02:00 GMT

Hi, I had the error "Access is denied. (Exeption from HRESULT:0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) when using VMRCPlus from an XP client, even though the computer was in the same domain and the user was logged in as a domain administrator (test system of course).

I found the the client's DNS settings were incorrect. Once DNS server added it worked fine. The message seems a little misleading.

I thought I'd pass this on since it took me sometime to find it.

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matthts — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:54:18 GMT

The access denied message is a result which is returned by the Virtual Server COM object. I have no control over it as to what circumstances cause this. Incorrect DNS usually causes a lot of auth issues so that does not surprise me. :-)

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andy18 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:39:10 GMT

I am also getting the message of "Access is denied. (Exeption from HRESULT:0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))" at a Windows XP client. Generally I am using this client as a testing terminal to host my virtual machines. I have Virtual Server R2 SP1 and Virtual PC installed on this machine.

As I found this VMRCPlus tools, I would like to manage the virtual machines via VMRCPlus but no luck of getting it running.

The client terminal is not joined to any domains and the VMRCPlus is running under the default Administrator user in Windows XP. I have not select the VMRCPlus API during the installation.

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mikaelh — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:38:54 GMT

We've got a virtual server 2005 host in our domain, and we've got a few user accounts that need to connect to the virtual servers being hosted.

I've added the user to the Local Administrators group on the virtual server 2005 host. However, when said user uses VMRCplus he can see the machines, but as soon as he tries to open the Console Manager, it asks for credentials. Said user cannot authenticate with his domain user credentials (that are part of local administrator on virtual server 2005 host), but authenticating with domain administrator credentials works fine.

What am I missing here?