Vista - Can't browse the web from Guest OS

I'm running Win XP Pro as guest os on a Windows Vista Business host. In VPC
guest oS Networking is set to NAT. And I connect to the internet from the
host os via dial-up. I've been struggling to get guest OS browser to work. I
have tried disabling firewall on the host OS but still it did not help.
I know very little about networking, so any help appreciated.
Thanks.
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YCK

"Bob Yee" <BobYee@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4E633CB8-FA07-4C1A-8A7F-C11CCD3DCDBA@xxxxxxIf shared networking (NAT) doesn't work for you, you could try ICS on the
host.

Normally ICS is used to allow a second physical computer to share another
computer's Internet connection. It can also be used from a virtual machine
if you install a Microsoft Loopback Adapter in the host machine.
Unfortunately the Vista help files are not very helpful on how to do this.

To install a Microsoft Loopback Adapter in Vista, go to control panel
and select Add Hardware.
Select "Install the hardware that I manually select.." button.
Select Network adapters.
Select Microsoft in the left pane and Microsoft Loopback Adapter in the
right pane.
Click Next.

Now you can enable ICS on the Vista machine. (This is explained quite
well in the help files). Select your dialup connection as the public
interface and the loopback adapter as the private interface.

You should now have an option in VPC to connect your vm to the loopback
adapter rather than use Shared Networking (NAT). When you start up the vm it
should get its network config from ICS and get an IP address 192.168.0.x and
use the loopback adapter (192.168.0.1) as its default gateway and DNS
address. (Check by typing ipconfig at a command prompt in XP). If the host
is connected to the Internet, the guest should be able to share the
connection.

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YCK


"Bill Grant" wrote:

Thanks for the reply Bill.
As for the internet connection problem, I managed to fix it before I got any
reply for my post by reading a post from this newsgroup which said the Host
OS had to be connected first before running the Guest OS. True enough , I
tried it and it works.
But I encountered another problem when I tried to share a folder on the
HOST with my VM. Each time I tried to open that folder the Guest OS Window
Explorer crashed. In the end I managed to get the sharing to work by
networking the HOST & Guest OS just like in your reply.

Thanks.