Symptoms:
When attempting to connect to the remote console you see this error:
Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe \\. \pipe\vmware-authdpipe: The system cannot find the file specified.
The VMRC logs located at %TEMP%\vmware-USERNAME\vmware-vmrc-####.log contain messages similar to:
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: CnxOpenTCPSocket: Cannot connect to server SERVERNAME:902: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectTCP failed
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: Cnx_Connect: Error message: Failed to connect to server SERVERNAME:902
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: VMClient_ConnectMksClientEx - Remote socket connection failed.
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: VMClient_ConnectMksClientEx - trying local socket connection to /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE/VM/VM.vmx
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: VMClientConnectSocketEx
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: CnxAuthdConnectPipe: Returning false because we ran out of retries when CreateFileW
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: CnxAuthdConnect: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnectPipe failed
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: CnxConnectAuthd: Returning false because CnxAuthdConnect failed
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: Cnx_Connect: Returning false because CnxConnectAuthd failed
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: Cnx_Connect: Error message: Could not connect to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe within retry period
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: VMClient_ConnectMksClientEx - Local socket connection failed.
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YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: DlgUI: Unable to connect to the MKS: Could not connect to pipe \\.\pipe\vmware-authdpipe within retry period.
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-00:00| vmrc| I125: VMMgr: Finished opening VM at /vm/#_56EBAA8_vm-###/ from SERVERNAME:vm-###