Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:36:50 +0000 From: cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk
On 17/01/11 16:06, keithjamieson@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
Do both have the correct IP addresses AND netmasks? Can they ping each other ? Can you install Wireshark to see if packets are being received by the other machine? Does this install use the PC host as the NAT address, or the virtual machine use a similar IP address? Are there firewalls running on either of the machines?
Before I answer those questions, can I just point out one thing that I mentioned above? One share is working fine. It's when trying to create another that it's failing.
It could be a firewall issue on the host machine. It will allow outgoing connections, but not allow incoming. A simpel test is a ping test may assist in this.
It could be the "NAT thing" which I have had problems with in the past on work machines.
Can you try a pre-rolled small VM, like Puppy ?
Yes I can and have but didn't try multiple shares. I'll give that a go though to check.
I'm writing this under Mandriva. There I can run Windows XP as a guest and despite having multiple shares on the host machine, in XP it will only allow me to have one share to a NAS drive - there are 4 shares to that under Mandriva - so I'm wondering if it's a Windows limitation that's preventing me having two shares to the host machine. I realise that this isn't the place to ask Windows questions so I won't pursue that here.
Sorry I was just trying to help :)
Keith