Unable to lock screen EWS 3.0

[Pete Nesbitt]

On December 9, 2004 07:52 pm, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Pete Nesbitt wrote:
> > On December 8, 2004 04:08 pm, jackie_wright at agilent.com wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I am unable to lock my screen using RH Enterprise 3.0 on a Dell Precision
> >>360 workstation.  This presents a major security problem. Has anyone had
> >>the same problem and if so what was the resolution?
> >>
> >>Thanks and Best Regards,
> >>Jackie Wright
> >>Agilent Technologies - WSD R&D IT Engineer
> >>Telnet:  435-6653 or (408) 435-6653
> >>Cell:  (510) 825-7638
> >>Fax: (408) 435-4803
> >
> > Are you running VMware? I had that problem using VMware on RH 8 & 9. I
> > ended up removing VMware (also because the vmware modules are bound to
> > specific kernels, so security patches cannot be applied).
>
> That last part is a bit of FUD.  I've been running VMware here for the
> past 3 years.  While it is true that "as released" VMware's modules are
> built/bound to a given kernel one simply has to run vmware-config.pl and
> the modules will be rebuilt to conform to the current running kernel.  I
> only vaguely remember one instance in the VMWare 2.X days that the
> rebuild process didn't work.
>
> Oh, FWIW, I just locked and unlocked my screen on RHELv3 with VMware
> running....no problem at all.
>
> Regards,
> Ed
>

Thanks Ed,
If it was FUD it was not intended that way (I'm fairly sure that info came 
right from VMware, some time back). 
I have been trying crossover office but am not too excited about it's outlook 
support. (need Outlook for work) Maybe I'll give VM another shot.
-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce