{"id":344,"date":"2011-12-13T22:57:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=344"},"modified":"2013-01-02T15:27:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T15:27:57","slug":"vmware-vcenter-converter-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"VMware vCenter Converter error: incorrect user credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, I&#8217;m trying to clone (P2V) a running virtual Windows XP computer, but when I enter the Administrator&#8217;s username and password, I get the error as follows:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nthe operation could not be completed for '192.168.1.2\\ADMIN$' due to incorrect user credentials<\/code><\/p>\n<p>[thanks to brewgoat] First of all, make sure you&#8217;re trying to log in the way converter expects (this seems to be the biggest cause of the issue)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In our network we use username@domain.lan format but converter hates that. It requires the use of domain\\username instead. If you use the wrong credential format it will give this error.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In my case, turned out IIS service was running on the source XP computer.  So I just had to figure out how to disable that (manage computer, services, find IIS Admin and click &#8216;disable&#8217;) and then the converter started right up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone, I&#8217;m trying to clone (P2V) a running virtual Windows XP computer, but when I enter the Administrator&#8217;s username and password, I get the error as follows: the operation could not be completed for &#8216;192.168.1.2\\ADMIN$&#8217; due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}