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Rknapke - 29 Nov 2004 21:33 GMT

I have Virual PC running on a W2K server. I have an image running with
SBS2003 on it. I have assigned the IP address of 192.168.16.2 with a Gateway
of 192.168.16.2 to the SBS. I would like to be able to ping and establish an
ODBC connection to the host machine for testing purposes. I set the
networking to be local only and i changed my Host IP address to 192.168.16.3
and GW of 193.168.16.3. I am trying to keep these machines completely
separate from my work network. With these settings i am unable to ping back
and forth. What do i have wrong or what do i need to change? Any help will
be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Rich

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Scott Baker - 29 Nov 2004 22:03 GMT

The VPC Help documents the network settings. From the
Help:
Local This option provides networking support between
virtual machines only. This means that the virtual
machine will not have access to any network resources on
the host operating system.

Install and use the loopback adapter on the host.
Instructions are in the VPC Help.

Scott

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>I have Virual PC running on a W2K server. I have an image running with
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Bill Grant - 30 Nov 2004 00:57 GMT

Regardless of the settings in the VPC console, you cannot ping from one
machine to another in a different IP subnet without an IP router. That is
how IP works.

Try the method Scott recommended. Set up a loopback adapter on the host.
You then have two options.

1. Set your NIC to the loopback adapter option and give the loopback
adapter an IP address in the same IP subnet as your SBS server.
2. Leave the first NIC in local. Set up a second NIC in the SBS server
and set it to the loopback option. Give this NIC and the loopback adapter on
the host IP addresses in the same IP subnet (different from the subnet of
your "local" network and your "real" network).

> The VPC Help documents the network settings. From the
> Help:
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>>Rich
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