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VMware View Client

By metallica1973

We have several ESXI 5.0 servers in our environment and am really tired of firing up my windows 7 VM and using Vsphere client to be able to see the “VM‘s”. I looked into using VMware View Client for linux and have never been able to get it to work. When I connect, I get:

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Untrust View Connection:

Failed to connect to the View Connection Server. The server provided an invalid certificate: The certificate authority is invalid or incorrect.

view certificate

blah blah blah




I found in their manual what one should do to circumvent the issue and decided to try to import the certificate:

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For instructions on importing a root certificate stored in this location, see the procedure called "Importing a

Certificate into the System-Wide Certificate Authority Database"
in the document at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSSL.




but to no evail. When I tell the client:

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do not verify server identity certificates.




it give me a HTTP error 400. Has anyone on this planet had any success with this?

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