Saturday, August 29, 2009

VMware vCenter - Insufficient Permissions

I was trying to P2V a Windows XP Tablet PC to the new ESX host that I just built and I kept getting the following error: "Insufficient permissions to connect to .." when vCenter Converter was trying to install the agent. Pretty easy right? I was using the target machines local administrator account to connect and that should have worked. I also tried other admin accounts, nothing worked. I then tried connecting to the admin$ share using the local admin account and still that failed. I finally figured it out, it may be obvious to those that work on desktop systems regularly, but it was not obvious to me. In Windows Explorer, under Options at the very bottom there is a check box to enable simple file sharing. After I unchecked this box, I was able to continue.

11 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing your experience! It seems that there is no FAQ reporting this problem... and its solution!

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  2. It works! Thanks mate!!

    For German users:
    Ordneroptionen > Ansicht > Einfache Dateifreigabe

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  3. I have been doing this stuff for years and have never seen any info on this. Thanks for providing the solution.

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  4. excellent thanks! worked for me too

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  5. Good dig by you Joann, thanks! This saved me a lot of time.

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  6. I was stuck and now I'm free! Thanx!

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  7. Didn't work for me for the same error. And yes, I'm using an account with Administrator rights.

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  8. I was using an administrator account but that account was not under the PC's domain. I added a local user, gave it Administrator rights, this time the domain was the name of the pc and problem was solved.

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  9. Thanks for this tip, it works and save me a lot of time

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  10. Thanks. That tip helped me as well.

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