VMWare logon issue

Petetech888

Petetech888

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Hi guys. to keep it simple first off I am hoping someone see what I am saying and knows exactly what I am talking about without a long detailed specification list.

1. I start the program.
2. I enter the user-name. User-Name accepted and I press enter.
3. When I attempt to enter the password nothing happens, nor any text entered will be accepted.

The tech who works this is away today and our POS system depends on me getting this up and running.

In case this is important. The boot process.
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk118/SkullsnapGTA/Technibble Shared/Logonboot1.jpg

The result of the login attempt failure. No blinking cursor.
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk118/SkullsnapGTA/Technibble Shared/Logonfailure1-1.jpg

I do not use VMware at all, and if so only a a virtual machine inside a VMWare partition and aside from that my knowledge is limited to a few classes years ago. Am I missing a key combination that will allow me to enter text after I have pushed enter after the user-name has been entered???!!

Any help at this point would be appreciated.
 
CTRL + ALT maybe? Just guessing and trying to help, not really knowledgeable on VMs.
 
Are you sure the password is correct ? On some VMs I have seen the password not show asterisks but accepts it if correct.

Worried your last screen shot shows errors though in the file system and it's read only- might be your POS that though.

What's the host operating system ?

If you press ctrl-alt do you get a mouse back for host system, if so try clicking back into VM and renter password ?
 
Hi Guys, thanks for your replies.

Its not a matter of bringing the mouse out of the interface, nor any other shortcut keys, but the failure of the login process to accept text after the user-name is entered. Yes the user-name is correct, also the password is too. After the entry of the user-name the process will time out after 60 secs as it believes no attempt has been made to enter a password.

This seems weird to me, so I need someone who uses VMWare quite often who may have struck this issue themselves before and will know a fix or the reason why. As you can imagine, having the P.O.S system down in a retail environment is slightly inconvenient :)

To add: The cursor does not blink at all after I push enter (or return depending on the keyboard or terminology used).
 
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What version of VMWare is it based on? I believe 7 onwards has the option to check the virtual disk for errors offline. Might be worth seeing if that can eliminate another variable
 
pc-quebec said:
It's not VMware WS your problem, the keyboard works as you can enter the user name. The problem is with your Ubuntu server and the posServer
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More likely so, but if it is how can you check fs if not able to login

Not much experience on pos

is there a way to login as root rather than the pos user and run some diagnostics ?
 
When you enter the password, it is not going to show asterisks or any text, the cursor will just blink. If you entered the posuser password correctly, the system might be locking up. Can you login with root?

EDIT: From what I see, this has nothing to do with VMware, but with your Linux server.
 
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After restarting the system several more times and entering the user-name and then the password we have login success.
I think I know why, and if i am correct it is slightly embarrassing, so to prevent someone else from making the same mistake is probably more important than my pride at this point...,

When logging on to a VMWare system the user-name is in sight as you type.
When entering the password the cursor remains stationary and unmoving until you enter the full password and press the enter (or Return) key.
Then the system will either accept or reject your password.
I do not use this and the person who does was away, so I was unaware that this is how it works.

Slightly embarrassing but a problem with a solution attached to save someone else wasting a few hours of a work day is more important than my dignity at this point.
Thanks for your help. :o
 
Petetech888 said:
When logging on to a VMWare system the user-name is in sight as you type.
When entering the password the cursor remains stationary and unmoving until you enter the full password and press the enter (or Return) key.Then the system will either accept or reject your password.
I do not use this and the person who does was away, so I was unaware that this is how it works.
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Are you a tech ? I ask because of the way it's presented , you don't indicate it was VMware WS running under Windows ???? ( what is the Host OS ? ) The title, when I see it I say to my self, he probably have a problem to log in on an Esxi server ( also a Vmware product )

aside:

I don't know why you insist on Vmware; login on OS virtually run on VMware WS is exactly the same as on a bare metal, ( the crtl-alt-del is replace by the crtl-alt-ins , but aside it's all the same ) This a problem typic to the system you have not a general Vmware problem or way to do thing .

I just try the same Ubuntu server you have ( without Pos ) and when I need to enter the password, the cursor blink and don't move when I enter my password. Like it's supose to do , it's a security

Look I really try it , here a prt screen over this post, the cursor blink

root.jpg
 
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