Connecting a Win XP VM to a Win 2K3 Server VM

[reporting]

Up until now, I have always used independent VM's and VMWare Workstation 5.x has worked fine for that kind of use.

I am now testing an application that cannot seem to live with another one I have installed on a Windows 2003 Server VM. So I setup app 1 on Windows 2003 server and want to install its client on an XP VM. However, I cannot see the Windows 2003 Server VM from the XP VM. I have tried both bridged and NAT on both VM's... Searching for the machine by name gets no joy!

There must be an easy way to do this. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks very much,

John Marrett
Crystal Reports Trainer & Consultant

http://www.e-reporting.ca

 

[RichardMoran]

Have you made sure that the 2003 firewall is either disabled, or set to allow 'file and printer sharing' under the exceptions tab? If not, you won't even be able to ping it from the XP machine.

Rik

 

[Provogeek]

can you search by IP address?

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Brent Schmidt SPOOOOON!!!!!
Senior Network Engineer
Keep IT Simple

http://www.kiscc.com

 

[SimonDavies]

First of all try giving both machines individual IP addresses from the same range (192.168.1.x works fine), secondly are you using DNS on the server? If not then you may find that you need to put an entry into the hosts file.

One thing you can also try is just moving both machines to VM network 2 (I just tried this out, as long as both machines have addresses in the same range it just works).

SimonD.

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