I am having difficulties connecting to my Vista Enterprise guest machine using NAT. I did a search but I couldn't really find any problems similar to mine. I tried to include the relevant information, but if I apologize in advance if I forgot something! Thanks in advance for the assistance
Host OS: Slackware Linux 12.0, kernel version 2.6.21.5
Guest OS: Windows Vista Enterprise 32-bit.
VMware server version 1.0.5 build-80187
Windows firewall is off.
I can ping the guest from the host.
nat.conf has "3389 = 192.168.51.128:3389" in both the incomingudp and incomingtcp settings.
I am connecting through my office computer at a University. I have a static IP.
In order to forward, I use (with both -p tcp and -p udp):
iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d 128.205.xxx.xxx --dport 3389 -j DNAT --to 192.168.51.128:3389
I previously had a straight Vista installation, and I could connect to that fine, so there is not an institutional firewall blocking it.
I can browse the internet fine from the guest machine.
Here are the files:
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Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : win
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : localdomain
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : localdomain
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-29-50-F4-33
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::b084:1478:c470:d92d%8(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.51.128(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:04:30 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:08:06 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.51.2
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.51.254
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 167775273
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.51.2
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 6:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 02-00-54-55-4E-01
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 7:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : localdomain
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : isatap.localdomain
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::5efe:192.168.51.128%10(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.51.2
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
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bash-3.1# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:56:29:6E:24
inet addr:128.205.x.x Bcast:128.205.x Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20d:56ff:fe29:6e24/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:68347 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26765 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:58502626 (55.7 MiB) TX bytes:3351795 (3.1 MiB)
Base address:0xdf40 Memory:feae0000-feb00000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08
inet addr:192.168.51.1 Bcast:192.168.51.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1024"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "Vista.vmdk"
scsi0:0.writeThrough = "TRUE"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "/dev/hdc"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.fileName = "/dev/fd0"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet0.connectionType = "custom"
displayName = "Vista"
guestOS = "longhorn"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
powerType.powerOff = "hard"
powerType.powerOn = "hard"
powerType.suspend = "hard"
powerType.reset = "hard"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 7f de b5 e9 d5 23-4c 0c 23 42 7f 50 f4 33"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 7f de b5 e9 d5 23-4c 0c 23 42 7f 50 f4 33"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:50:f4:33"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"
tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
checkpoint.vmState = ""
ethernet0.vnet = "/dev/vmnet8"
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