Vista - Internet access with the browser

Using Virtual PC 2007, I have created a 2003 R2 SP2 Standard Server guest
machine . The host machine is also a 2003 SP2 Standard server.
I have the Virtual NIC set up using DHCP, getting the address from our
internal DHCP server. I have access to our internal network and I can use
nslookup to see sites outside (msn.com, google.com, etc.) from the guest
machine. My problem is that I cannot browse to any sites on the internet. I
get an "Address not valid" in the title bar of IE7 and the address bar
displays "http:///" when IE finally times out. In the settings for the
guest, I am not using Shared Networking (NAT). I am using the NIC of the
host and using the MAC address of the NIC on the guest to pull from our DHCP
server.
Any ideas on why the browser on the guest is not working?
Thanks,
Chris

Try entering the DNS server IP addresses manually. VPC and Win2003
guests sometimes have this problem...

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Bob Comer


On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:24:04 -0800, Chris W <Chris
W@xxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. I manually put in my DNS server information, but
unfortunately it made no difference. I also tried to manually put in a
public DNS IP information that I found mention of, and that also made no
difference in the behavior.

"Chris W" wrote:

That sounds very strange -- like it's an INET problem on the guest OS,
but I have no idea how to figure out what's going on remotely...

You might go at it from that angle and search for similar problems
with Win2003 R2 on Microsoft's site. (doesn't matter if it's a VM or
on real hardware)

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Bob Comer


On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:54:14 -0800, Chris W
<ChrisW@xxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for trying Bob!
I'll keep plugging along.

"Robert Comer" wrote: