Msnet with Virtual PC

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SuitedAces
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Msnet with Virtual PC

Post by SuitedAces » Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:34 pm

I am having trouble getting Msnet to work with a guest computer in Microsoft Virtual PC.

I turned off all firewalls and was unable to connect.

Has anyone ever attempted this ?
Is there an add in with Virtual PC that needs to be installed ?

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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:04 pm

What kind of networking is set up for the VPC - is it sharing the same IP as the host? That could be an issue.
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Post by SuitedAces » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:25 pm

No the Ip isn't the same as the host .
I have 2 physical computers on a Lynksys router.
And the guest computers have these IPs

physical computer 1: 192.168.15.100
physical computer 2: 192.168.15.101
guest 1 (virtual comp): 192.168.131.65
guest 2 (virtual comp): 192.168.131.66

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Post by SuitedAces » Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:46 am

I was able to change the ip of the guest computers so that the all but the last octet matched.

Then I was the able to run the macro using msnet.

But the firewall is a huge problem.

With no firewall on a host computer or it's guest computers (virtual) I can run a macro from different physical computer on either the host or it's guest computer.

With a firewall on the host only, I can allow mshed.exe in the firewall and the macro runs on the host from another physical computer.

But I cannot for some reason run the macro on the guest even though I have no firewall on the guest.

So the firewall allows msched.exe and the macro runs on the host from another computer, but when you try to run a macro on a guest computer (virtual computer) which has no firewall it doesn't go through.

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