After starting VMware, I noticed that there are more than 10 processes called 'thnuclnt'. They're listening on the port 4000. (Since i use this port for something else, it's annoying.)
I'm wondering what this is, since I didn’t find anything about it.
I use Mac 10.5.8 with VMware Fusion 2.0.2
3 Answers
That process is used for VMware's virtual printing feature. They sit around waiting for data from virtual machines. (You can quit them with Activity Monitor if they're in the way, with no ill effects.)
If you have any VMware Fusion guests running, open up the Settings -> Printers and disable this feature. This usually will stop the thnuclnt service.
A VMware Communities post gives a conclusion that it's part of VMware Fusion:
3VMware Communities: XP SP3 VM hangs/shuts down, hangs Fusion
8 posts - 3 authors - Last post: 9 Sep 2008
... Support/VMware Fusion/thnuclnt/thnuclnt -pdir /var/folders/i5/i5P1vGYhFAWhTofyodWXTk+++TI/-Tmp-//vmware-rg/thnuclnt-1520 -fg
