"netlogon service is not running" on NT4
Peter X
I've just installed the linux version of VMware Workstation 4 and
created a new virtual machine on which I've installed NT 4 Workstation.
I format as NTFS and pretty much everything else is default.
The install is fine, I install SP3, reboot, and then I install the
WMware Tools. Select the video driver and reboot as directed.
THEN when I try to logon, and after a delay (approx. 1 or 2 minutes?) I
get the message "Unable to log you on because the netlogon service is
not running on this machine.".
The only way I can log the machine on is by rebooting and choosing VGA
mode from the NT boot menu. This lets me login, but obviously isn't the
right way to do things! And even then, I can't select a better video
mode - it hangs when I try... although that might be because I've booted
in VGA mode.
All of this is on a laptop running SuSE 8.2 Pro. I've tried setting up
the VM with no networking at all, and installed NT4 also with no
networking.... I thought perhaps Samba was mis-configured under SuSE and
was upsetting NT, but it seems this isn't related.
So basically, why does installing VMware Tools upset NT logon?
Thanks in advance!
Peter.
Joel Franco Guzmán
I'm using now VMWare Workstation 5.0.0 build-13124 and trying to install
the Windows NT4 Workstation BR, under host Linux 2.6.13. I install the
SP6a. Reboot OK. Then i install the VMWAre tools, but it happens exactly
the same problem of you Peter.
I tried this in 2 different host machines (a Notebook Compaq V2000 and a
Xeon based server machine) and the problem is exactly the same machine
in both machines.
It愀 really strange that this problem still exist since 2003, because in
http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/ (the actual support for
the VMware 5 product), the NT is still supported.
The NT windows machine is the perfect machine for try configurations
together with the Samba 3 software (especially in the Windows NT
Domain), bcz it is a ligthweight machine and take little memory from the
host machine to open a lot VM's.
Plz, people from the VMWare Team, could you help us?
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