> "John Straumann" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>
>> I have an image running in Virtual PC on my desktop
>
> Can you please clarify what you mean by "an image" - are you referring to
> a virtual machine on which you have installed on operating system...?
>
>> Can anyone make a suggestion as to what I can do to troubleshoot this?
>
> 1) What OS is running on the host?
> 2) What OS is running on the guest?
> 3) Have you configured the guest's virtual NIC to point at the host's
> physical NIC?
> 4) Are both host and guest in the same workgroup / domain?
>
> 5) Have you enabled file sharing and/or public folder sharing on the host
> (depending on which OS is running on the host)?
>
> 6) Check the firewall settings on both host and guest, if enabled.
>
>
> --
> Mark Rae
> ASP.NET MVP
> http://www.markrae.net

> I have an image running in Virtual PC on my desktop
> Can anyone make a suggestion as to what I can do to troubleshoot this?

> Hi Mark:
>
> Thanks for the reply, answers inline prefaced by JJS>>
>
> From the Guest it seems like I cannot get past the router to any of my LAN
> machines., I can go out to the Internet, but cannot ping, network, etc. any
> of the machines on the LAN from the Guest...
>
> John.
>
> "Mark Rae [MVP]" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > "John Straumann" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> > news:(email address - cut out)...
> >
> >> I have an image running in Virtual PC on my desktop
> >
> > Can you please clarify what you mean by "an image" - are you referring to
> > a virtual machine on which you have installed on operating system...?
> >
> JJS>> Yes
>
> >> Can anyone make a suggestion as to what I can do to troubleshoot this?
> >
> > 1) What OS is running on the host?
> JJS>> The Host is Vista, the network drive I am trying to connect to is on
> WS 2008
>
> > 2) What OS is running on the guest?
> JJS>> WS 2003
> > 3) Have you configured the guest's virtual NIC to point at the host's
> > physical NIC?
>
> JJS>>Yes, as I mentioned I can get to the internet from the guest
>
> > 4) Are both host and guest in the same workgroup / domain?
> JJS>>No, however other PCS on my network are also not part of the same
> domain, but when I try to map the network drive I am simply asked to enter
> credentials.
>
> >
> > 5) Have you enabled file sharing and/or public folder sharing on the host
> > (depending on which OS is running on the host)?
>
> JJS>> Yes
> >
>
> > 6) Check the firewall settings on both host and guest, if enabled.
> JJS>>Not enabled
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark Rae
> > ASP.NET MVP
> > http://www.markrae.net
>

>Have you installed "virtual machine addons"? If not you will not be able to
>map the drives through UNC path. Although you should be able to map them
>through IP.
>ex: \\192.168.1.x\sharename
>
>With the addons installed you can use the UNC path.
>ex: \\servername\sharename

> Have you installed "virtual machine addons"? If not you will not be able
> to
> map the drives through UNC path. Although you should be able to map them
> through IP. > ex: \\192.168.1.x\sharename
>
> With the addons installed you can use the UNC path.
> ex: \\servername\sharename

> Hi Mark:
>
> Thanks for the reply, answers inline prefaced by JJS>>
>
> From the Guest it seems like I cannot get past the router to any of my LAN
> machines.,

>
>
> "John Straumann" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
> > Hi Mark:
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, answers inline prefaced by JJS>>
> >
> > From the Guest it seems like I cannot get past the router to any of my LAN
> > machines.,
>
> That is a strange statement. Your LAN machines are not past your
> router. Machines outside your network are beyond your router but your LAN
> machines (including the vm) are inside your router and communicate directly
> using hardware addressing. This should work even if there was no router on
> the network.
>
>
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