I hope this is the right forum. Apologies if it's not.
First off my setup:
- I'm using VMWare View Manager 4.0, vSphere 4.0, and VMWare ESX 4.0.0.
- I'm trying to setup some Windows XP 64-bit machines to use with our thin clients.
- The 64-bit XP template is using VMWare Tools 8.3.7.
Here's my problem: I get the template going, I get it to join the the Active Directory, the new machines build from the template, but VMWare View Manager never registers getting past Customizing. The machines register with the AD server, they get a name that even shows up on vSphere, but the Customizing never goes away until it changes to Error.
I had McAfee 8.something installed but I have removed it. I turned the firewalls off within XP. I was able to telnet to ports 3389, 4001, and 8009 on the View Manager server. As far as I can tell there's nothing blocking communications between machines and the server. When I set the customization script to login as the local Administrator it does.
What am I doing wrong? What can I do to fix this?
I'm about ready to just ditch the VMWare customization and write my own customization script that fires off when admin logs in. Any suggestions or pointing to documentation I've missed would be welcome.
Thanks.