If you receive any of these errors when trying to connect to a source system or install the Converter Agent, it is because VMware Converter is using an interprocess communication (IPC) named-pipe network connection with multiple sets of credentials between the local Windows Redirector and the remote host. Windows Redirector does not allow IPC connections with multiple credentials from the same user session.
Note: This restriction also applies to mapped network drives as they are also a type of named-pipe connection.
To ensure the Converter Agent connection succeeds, perform these steps on the source system that is to be converted and the system running VMware Converter (whether it be vCenter Server or a workstation):
If issues with VMware Converter persist:
For more information, see Troubleshooting when VMware Converter fails to complete a conversion of a physical or virtual machine.