I am also running Win XP SP3 and get the same error. The error message
on SAGE VMware Player is: sh : cannot create notebook.log: Permission
denied.

Do you mean that I can't run and work with SAGE?

On Jul 12, 2:04 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/7/12 RunningHare <[email protected]>:
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> > I am a novice sage user and am trying to get sage up and running on a
> > Windows XP SP 3 machine.
> > I have downloaded binary build sage-vmware-4.0.2 and vmware player
> > 2.5.2 build-156735.
> > The Sage verion is 4.0.2 Release 2009-06-18.
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> > I have installed the vmware player and clicked on the sage-vmx.vmx
> > file which starts up vmware player and
> > shows a list of four commands, one of which is notebook. I type in
> > notebook at the "sage login:" prompt
> > which slightly surprises me since it sounds more like an
> > authentication prompt. The result is that after some
> > miscellaneous  text that looks fairly reasonable I get  an instruction
> > to go to URL
> >http://192.168.159.128in a browser in my case Firefox 3.0.11 which I
> > do and get an error page
> > "Connection Interrupted.The document contains no data.The network link
> > was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again."
> > I have also tried with IE 7.0 in which I get
> > "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".The URL is the one in
> > the instructions.txt.
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> > Can anyone suggest how I go about connecting to the notebook process?
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> The vmware version of sage does work for most users using exactly the
> same steps that you're doing above, so you're not doing anything
> wrong.  It's just "not working" because of some Windows firewall of
> VMware networking issue.  Your best bet is to usehttp://sagenb.orgor
> wait for the windows port of Sage (http://windows.sagemath.org).
> Sorry.
>
>  -- William

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