No LAN Connection using VMWare on a host-only Linux Guest 1

[blp]

I am using a notebook with windows 2000 professional as my host OS. I have installed VMWare and loaded Red Hat Linux 7.0 on as a guest operating system. I am using a host-only network to create a VPN. I have TCP/IP access between the host and guest operating systems. However, I want to give my guest OS access to the LAN but without using a Bridged Network. So I installed Sygate as a proxy server to allow for the LAN connection. Over the LAN I have access to my guest OS (Red Hat, I watch the log files and see ftp, telnet, etc connecting) but my problem is that my guest OS (red hat) does not have connectivity to the LAN. How can I configure my Linux Server to have access to the LAN?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

With the host-only networking the virtual machine has connectivity between the VM & host as if were on a separate subnet. To get a packet from the vm, via the vm host, to an outside machine the vm host must 'forward' the ip packet. By default M$/Windows machines do not forward packets. So, I believe you have to have to enable that on the W2K box -->

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q230/0/82.ASP?LN=EN-GB&SD=gn&FR=0

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After that it should work - you would set a default gateway in linux as being the ip address of the vmnet adapter on the W2K host. Then its just a matter of if the ip routing works on the W2K machine...

Regards