Vista - Static IP for Virtual PCs - No network connectivity

If anyone can help me out there I would be very grateful. Pulling My hair out!

I have a win2k3 server running two other win2k3 virtual PCs. The host has
network settings of
IP 192.167.0.3
SM 255.255.255.0
DG 192.168.0.1
DNS 192.168.0.1

I have internet access when I use NAT on the VPCs set their IP to DHCP and
their DNS to 192.168.131.254. However, I cannot browse to the VPCs from other
machines on the network or the host. If I set the VPCs to a static IP, I lose
internet connectivity and still cannot browse from the network. If I set them
to use the physical host adapter (and not use NAT), I can get to the Internet
on the VPCs but my host loses internet connectivity. I have never been able
to browse to a VPC from another computer on the network or the host (ping
times out).

We have a Linksys router with DHCP enabled. I eventually would like to run
IIS on a VPC and route port 80 to the static IP address. I understand why
most of these are happening, just not sure what the solution is for getting
these VPCs as full citizens of our network.

Thanks.
Sol

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:52:01 -0800, Solomon
<Solomon@xxxxxx> wrote:
Is the host getting a DHCP IP too? If not, are you sure that DHCP is
not assigning .3 to your VM?

What IPs are you using when you set the VM to static IP? Are you sure
they're free? Are you matching up the GW and DNS to the host also?

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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Yeah, the host definitely has a static IP. When I run IPCONFIG on the VM, I
get a different IP address.

I am relatively sure the VMs are not using an already assigned IP, but I
will check. I am using the same DNS and GW.

I should be using NAT, correct? Not Loopback or something else?

Thanks for getting back to me so quick!

Solomon

"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:

No, you should not be using Shared Networking (NAT). To be able to direct
traffic from your Linksys to a vm, that vm must look like another machine on
your private LAN. It should be set to the physical NIC option and it should
get its config from DHCP on the Linksys. The host machine and the vms should
all have IP addresses in the same IP subnet and use the Linksys as the
gateway.

Set the vm to the physical NIC option and set it to obtain an IP and
DNS automatically. When you boot it up it should get its config from DHCP.

This setting should not affect how the host connects to the Internet.
If it does, there may be a problem with the driver for your network card.
Some drivers do not work well with VMNS (Virtual Machine Network Services)
which is the code that allows the vms to use the physical NIC.

"Solomon" <Solomon@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Have you setup your DHCP to assing static ips using MAC address? If so
then the problem is maybe that the VM is using the same MAC address for
the NIC as the host.

I think it is possible to change which MAC the VM is using (think it is
the help file or try google)

"Magnusb" <magnusb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.23dac6eb1dafd941989690@xxxxxx
It is.
Specifically, at the bottom of the topic entitled Troubleshooting Virtual PC


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ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:32:16 +0100, Magnusb <magnusb@xxxxxx> wrote:
Ther MAC of the host PC:s network card and the MAC of the virtual
machine's network card are NOT the same!!!!
Where did you get thta from?
VPC assigns a unique MAC address to each new network interface it
creates in a virtual machine and it is unique to that machine (as it
should).

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:52:01 -0800, Solomon
<Solomon@xxxxxx> wrote:
This will NOT work!
You have your PC and all others on different subnets!
192.167 versus 192.168!!!

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

"Bo Berglund" <boberglund@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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192.167.0.3 is (almost) certainly a typo, as that's not even a private
address...


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

In article <r8m1n4hjjjedf68q5rvjqgodnbupecqg76@xxxxxx>,
boberglund@xxxxxx says...
I am pretty sure that at one time when I was trying to setup my dhcp at
home with static ip adresses bound to mac address I saw them having the
same MAC address. Don't remember if it was same as host or it was two VM
having same MAC.

But I might remember wrong. Guess it might be possible that two VMs have
same MAC if you have copied VMC files or something. But I guess that
networking would fail completly then.