How to check if a port is open

[Platypus]

Well, you have been banned for quite a while, haven't you Lucy?

Lucy hasn't got the brains to comment on telnet and open ports

[blacjac]

Niether has this doggy, they clearly don't have a clue what they are talking about.....

[JoJoGabor]

Can you telnet to 445 and 139 on the original VM? From memory I think that 139 is not listening by default

[Sysman]

Can you telnet to 445 and 139 on the original VM? From memory I think that 139 is not listening by default

139 is a NETBIOS port.
445 is a Microsoft-DS port (MS Directory Services).

Here's the IANA list of standard Port Numbers.

[digerido]

If you have a firewall between the converter\virtual center and physical machines you will also need 902 opened on the firewall.

If there isn't a firewall in place and even though 139 and 445 are opened as default on the physical OS it maybe worth trying disabling the windows firewall.

[administrator]

Sorry, should have seen DogTown was being a prat earlier, no need for that. Have banned. Can't see any connection to shewhomustnotbenamed but you never know... Thanks to you all for helping the OP out.

[wurzel]

Yes thanks a lot. The problem was , as somebody alluded to earlier, that there was nothing running on said ports. That's becuase when you install VMWare Converter Standalone, the remote access component isn't installed. What you have to do is run the set up program again and select modify / repair and select remote access. Seems totally bizarre that there is no option to do this on the initial install.