VMware unable to connect

[cheeseds]

Dark Bishop is trying to get me set up on folding at home using VMware and it cant connect via NAT or bridge any ideas?

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7450/natd.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7450/natd.jpg) Via NAT

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3841/bridgew.th.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/3841/bridgew.jpg) via Bridge

[Jolly-Swagman]

Have you allowed an exception in your firewall rules to allow VMware, and use the bridged one.

[cheeseds]

Have you allowed an exception in your firewall rules to allow VMware, and use the bridged one.

no good, the only firewall i have have is the windows defender (i know im a baddy) and i tried disabling it and it still does not work

[PeddlerOfFlesh]

Do you have more than one network connection? Like 2 NICs and one is plugged or some other virtual connection? Sometimes VMWare will try to bridge to those. You can go to the connection's properties and uncheck "VMWare Bridge" on all except the connection you want it to bridge to and see if that helps.

[Voidn]

Should be bridged. But an ip of 5.36.134.128 looks like a public ip. Is your internet connection (modem/router) providing DHCP for you?

What is the IP of your desktop that vmware is running on top of? (start-run-cmd-ipconfig)

The best and safest way to do this would be to get a $50 linksys "router" (or equivalent). Have the internet (modem/router) plugged into the linksys WAN port and it will give the linksys a public IP (5.36.134.x). Than have your pc plugged into the linksys. And have the linksys handle internal DHCP. With a private address range like 192.168.x.x.

That way your desktop is, for example, 192.168.1.10, then the vms are 192.168.1.11 and 192.168.1.12 (same local subnet). And the linksys will handle your internet access (and it does all this by default).

[PeddlerOfFlesh]

IIRC 5.x.x.x is not a valid public range, UNLESS you're using Hamachi, in which case it would seem VMWare is bridging to your Hamachi adapter. If that is the case, remove the hamachi adapter from the ones available to bridge to, like I mentioned above.

Edit: Yeah, if you're not using Hamachi, there is something screwy with your network.

[Voidn]

Non internet routeable Private IPs:
RFC1918 name IP address range number of addresses classful description largest CIDR block (subnet mask) host id size
24-bit block 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 16,777,216 single class A 10.0.0.0/8 (255.0.0.0) 24 bits
20-bit block 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 1,048,576 16 contiguous class Bs 172.16.0.0/12 (255.240.0.0) 20 bits
16-bit block 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 65,536 256 contiguous class Cs 192.168.0.0/16 (255.255.0.0) 16 bits

But you could still be right about Hamachi, a vpn throws a wrench in the networking setup and could do unusual things with a bridged network adapter.

[dark bishop]

he is using hamachi, that would expain everything.

[cheeseds]

Thanks for all the help guys, i disabled the hamachi connection and it worked like magic

[PeddlerOfFlesh]

Non internet routeable Private IPs:
RFC1918 name IP address range number of addresses classful description largest CIDR block (subnet mask) host id size
24-bit block 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 16,777,216 single class A 10.0.0.0/8 (255.0.0.0) 24 bits
20-bit block 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 1,048,576 16 contiguous class Bs 172.16.0.0/12 (255.240.0.0) 20 bits
16-bit block 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 65,536 256 contiguous class Cs 192.168.0.0/16 (255.255.0.0) 16 bits

But you could still be right about Hamachi, a vpn throws a wrench in the networking setup and could do unusual things with a bridged network adapter.

Right. I didn't say it was private. I said it wasn't a valid public range ;). That range is a bogon range. http://www.countryipblocks.net/bogons/

[Voidn]

Right. I didn't say it was private. I said it wasn't a valid public range ;). That range is a bogon range. http://www.countryipblocks.net/bogons/

We'll ya learn something new every day :). They didn't even mention Bogons while I was getting my CCNA! I did some lookups on it and just assumed it was an isolated network. Now I have a name for it. *bookmakrs url*