Cannot see other PC on home network or my Mac for the PC. Need Help Please

[Mac_Friend]

I bought VM Fusion so I could run ACT for workgroups on my mac. I need to beable to sync in over the web and on a local worelss net work. (I am not very knowledgeable with computers. I know just enough to get myself in trouble. I installed Fusion and it seems to be running fine. I installed ACT and it seems to run fine. When I treid to locate another computer I cannot fine see it in network connections or any other network related screen. If I go to the other computer (PC) the is also connected to the dsl I cannot see my mac. I have windows file sharing checked in the mac sharing section. Any help would be welcomed.

Thanks

[admin]

You wanted to post this in the Fusion subforum (mods, can this thread be moved?)

Are you using NAT or bridged networking (under Virtual Machine > Network)? If you're not using bridged, try that. You may have to restart the guest to get a new DHCP lease (this isn't the only way, but it's the easiest to describe).

[Mac_Friend]

Thanks for the reply but you are way beyond what I know.

I have a Mac Book Pro (2 gig so I guess that is 1 gig for XP and 1 gig for Mac) running fusion and XP home edition and a Pentium 4 3.20 Ghz with a 1 GB of ram also running XP home edition. The PC is wired directly to a 2Wire (brand) wireless home portal (for Home DLS). The Mac is connected with WiFi to thew same portal. If I go to :"my network places" or Network connections I though I should be able to see the other machine but I can not. I have Share window files checked off on my Mac System preferences and I ran the network wizard but it made no difference. I have tried it with the firewall up or down with the same results. Does that help you at all?

Thanks

Jay

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Your post has been moved to the VMware Fusion forum

Dave Mishchenko

VMware Communities User Moderator

[Mac_Friend]

Maybe it is me but I do not see anything labeled "VMware Fusion forum". Please provide link.

Thanks. I have still not resolved problem. Until it is resolved the program is of no use to me I bought it solely to run ACT on my mac laptop.

Thanks

Jay

[Dave_Mishchenko]

It's here - http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/fusion. When you open the link you'll see an option to Search Community (right hand top corner) - you may find a similar thread that answers your question.

[admin]

Thanks for the reply but you are way beyond what I know.

See the very beginning of for where to find this setting.

[Mac_Friend]

Thanks, I found the problem.It was set for NAT and I changed it to Bridged.

[weymuller]

Hello etung, I have my network settings to bridged, and I can see the host Mac, but cannot see any other computers (Mac or PC) on the network. any thoughts?