vmware ws 5 - cannot connect to internet

[gsainc]

I installed a vmware winxp-sp2 client on my winxp-pro-xp2 machine.

I cannot connect to the internet.

Looking at the virtual machine paddress, I changed it after noticing it was assigned an ipaddress in a different segment. I modified to use dhcp. Still no go. I then changed it be on the same segment (192.168.1.51). In neither case was I able to ping my router (192.168.1.1).

This used to work with dchp but I don't what I did to stop the virtual machine networking capabailities to be disabled.

HELP!!!

 

[gsainc]

I've managed to make it work by modifying my virtual machine's network connection to make it use NAT instead of bridging.

But how can I make it work using the default method of bridging - or is that not possible?

My thinking here is that I want it to work with the minimum of deviation from the default. If bridging is the default configuration for the VM, why does it not work?

Cheers

 

[SimonDavies]

Do you have multiple nic's in your machine (ie a wireless and wired nic?) If so try having a look at the Virtual Network Settings, untick the Automatic Bridging and assign VMNet0 to the preferred nic and give that a try (I had similar issues hence me investigating.. I have multiple nic's and it was taking it from my Dev network rather than Prod).

SimonD.

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[gsainc]

Thanks for your suggestion - but I do not have multiple nic's, only the one.

After having repeated problems with DHCP not working properly, I uninstalled VMWARE version 5.0.

After that, I had no more networking problems at all.

I have since installed VMWARE 5.5 but have not yet created any virtual machines.

I will - eventually - after giving more time to ensure the problem was due to VMWARE, which I am now almost certain is the case.

Hopefully, version 5.5 will correct the problem.