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]>: > > > > > > > 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. > > > 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. > > > Can anyone suggest how I go about connecting to the notebook process? > > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
