Can't PING from XP guest to Vista host, regardless of Ethernet setting

[gers32]

Hi,

I have VMWare Player (2.0.2 build-59824) installed on a Vista host; the Virtual Machine is XP SP2. I can ping from the Vista host to the XP guest but not the other way around. The Ethernet setting on the Player is "Bridged" by default, so I tried setting to "Nat" and "Host-only", but it still doesn't work (unless I'm supposed to restart the virtual OS after I change settings?).

The XP guest will be running a Ruby on Rails application and needs to communicate with Oracle installed on the Vista host. I'll appreciate any input on this problem.

Chris

[jgl1975]

Hello!

It might seem obvious but how is the Vista firewall setup ?

Have you tried to disable it ?

[ponpalani2001]

Hi,

I had a same problem when using VMware workstation. I had solved the problem by choosing custom adapter(VMnet0) on the workstation side and made host machine network connection setting also as VMnet0. Then it solved the problem.

Thanks

[gers32]

Thanks for the tip jgl1975. Yes, my Vista host firewall is disabled because I had already installed a version of my application on a real XP machine inside my network. But this time, I'm trying to do the same with a virtual machine, so I can test with different OSes.

[gers32]

ponpalani2001, I'd like to try this out, but would you be kind enough to help me out with the details?

First, how do I set this on the VMWare side (I'm using VMWare Player, and not Workstation)? I looked inside the vmx configuration file, but found nothing, as well as in the Player's menus...

Second, how do I set this on my Vista host, and might it adversely affect my network settings (to the outside)?

Thanks,

Chris.