I should have said that I'm running WS 9.0.2 (production) here. So I don't know where to post
My host is Fedora 19. When I try to go to the localhost:8888 Firefox reports "Unable go connect"
The output of netstat -ttlnp is:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8307 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 192.168.122.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:17500 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2852/dropbox
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:902 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 :::111 :::* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 ::1:8307 :::* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 ::1:631 :::* LISTEN -
tcp6 0 0 :::443
Going to localhost:631 brings up the online CUPS page.
Perhaps if I changed WSX to Listen on port 8307 I'd have better luck.
However just running sudo /usr/bin/vmware-installer -u vmware-wsx
and then reinstalling thke bundle does not give the option of specifying the port - which I had the first time I ran the bundle.
In what directory is the WSX port number spec located and can I change it?
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This was solved by uninstalling WSX 1.02 (dereconfiguring I should say) and then installing the 1.1 beta (allowing noscript to OK access to localhost). Still the option to change to change the port wasn't found but 8888 worked so the thread is unanswered. . I'd move this thread to the WSX forum but that is pretty inactive last I checked.
WSX login screen looks better but it will take me some time to go through the changelog.