Since installing IE7 this week I started getting the following message whenever I launched an application installed on a network drive (ie. a location on my Samba server):

"The publisher can not be verified. Are you sure you
want to run this software ?".

It seems the new internet security features in IE7 decided that my network was a risk. I guess it's sort of fair, since I've never explicitely told IE7 that it's safe but still, it's a bit galling.

Anyway, to fix the problem,

1. Open Intenet Options from the Control panel


2. Select Security/Local Intranet/Sites/Advanced


3. Enter the network drive letter or UNC and click Close

This should add a rule for file://{servername} and should fix the problem for all EXEs on the server in question.

Boo Hoo. My perfectly stable install of VMWare Desktop v5.5.5 stopped working today. Clicking the icon on my desktop popped up the Hourglass cursor which went away after 3-4 secs with nice VMWare screen at the end of it.

It turns out a recent Ubuntu Automatic Update installed new Kernel files (I'm now on v2.6.15-27) and as VMWare was compiled/configured against my older kernel, it fell over.

So. To fix it:

1. Start a console session


2. type

   sudo apt-get install kernel-headers-`uname -r`

   to install the C header files for the current kernel


3. type

   /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

   to recompile the VMWare binaries


4. You can now run VMware Workstation by invoking

   /usr/bin/vmware

Worked a dream.