Further to the last post, I decided to try putting Vmware server on the server machine to run some vm machines.
All got installed ok, and VMware server seems to run, but I can only conect to it locally. There is no network support.
Whenever the vmware server program started, it would always return something about the libpng files. Found a fix at the openSuSE site.
From that page, this is what was required:
cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0
mv libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0.old
ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
mv libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1.old
ln -sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1

But the problem of erro 599 with vmware-authd is still there. I believe it’s the reason why I cannot log in remotly to the vmware server.

EDIT:
Well, did a bit more playing around, and the starting of vmware-authd was never meant to be done from the command line. xinetd needs to start that service, and all is well.
And when connecting to the vmware server from the console, the IP is server02:905 where 905 is the port.
So make sure port 905 is also opened in the firewall, or this won’t work.