I'm not able to use samba and vmnetnat. Please help me because this is making me crazy. I use XP on an ADSL connection. PPPoE IP is assigned dinamically. Eth0 IP can be assigned dinamically or statical *tried both* RedHat 8.0 is the guest, XP service pack 1 is the host. I also uses sygate firewall on XP *but i set allow all for testing* Linux routes via NAT and it works fine (even DNS resolution). If i play with vmnetnat.cfg adding 18401 = 192.168.100.128:22 13139 = 192.168.100.128:139 I can access guest (i can log in with slogin and see the smb port). So port forwarding works! But this is just a test which is ok for ssh, but NOT for browse with XP's explorer (am i wrong?) If i try to browse directly the address NAT and Host hardware i always see my XP shares not the RedHat ones. All this stuff work better and trasparently in vmware 3.1! Any suggestion? -=-=- Here is my numbers from XP: ipconfig C:\Documents and Settings\antonio.LORENIX\Menu Avvio>ipconfig /all Nome host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : lorenixp Suffisso DNS primario . . . . . . . : Tipo nodo . . . . . . . . . : Sconosciuto Routing IP abilitato . . . . . . . . : S? Proxy WINS abilitato . . . . . . . . : S? Scheda Ethernet WmWare NAT: Suffisso DNS specifico per connessione: Descrizione . . . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter (Network Address Translation (NAT) for VMnet8) Indirizzo fisico. . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-08 DHCP abilitato. . . . . . . . . . . . : S? Configurazione automatica abilitata : S? Indirizzo IP configurazione automatica: 169.254.218.201 Subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Gateway predefinito . . . . . . . . . : Scheda Ethernet VmWare Host: Suffisso DNS specifico per connessione: Descrizione . . . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter (basic host-only support for VMnet1) Indirizzo fisico. . . . . . . . . . . : 00-50-56-C0-00-01 DHCP abilitato. . . . . . . . . . . . : S? Configurazione automatica abilitata : S? Indirizzo IP configurazione automatica: 169.254.25.142 Subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Gateway predefinito . . . . . . . . . : Scheda Ethernet FastEth CNET: Suffisso DNS specifico per connessione: Descrizione . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Scheda Fast Ethernet PCI CNet PR O200 Indirizzo fisico. . . . . . . . . . . : 00-80-AD-7C-DB-9E DHCP abilitato. . . . . . . . . . . . : No Indirizzo IP. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.100.5 Subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Gateway predefinito . . . . . . . . . : Scheda PPP {A6BAF807-87CC-4686-BC4F-E536BB32A9E5}: Suffisso DNS specifico per connessione: Descrizione . . . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface Indirizzo fisico. . . . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00 DHCP abilitato. . . . . . . . . . . . : No Indirizzo IP. . . . . . . . . . . . . : Subnet mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255 Gateway predefinito . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 Server DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 217.141.255.204 212.216.112.112 NetBIOS su TCPIP. . . . . . : Disabilitato =======> From Linux side i get this IP: 192.168.10.128 =======> How can i route to this IP is from XP side NAT interface =======> is on another IP CLASS? ++++ Here it is My vmnetnat.conf # Windows NAT configuration file [host] # NAT gateway address ip = 192.168.100.2/24 hostMAC = 00:50:56:C0:00:08 # enable configuration; disabled by default for security reasons # # Added by AG for fun #configport = 33445 # VMnet device if not specified on command line device = VMnet8 # Allow PORT/EPRT FTP commands (they need incoming TCP stream...) activeFTP = 1 # Allows the source to have any OUI. Turn this one if you change the OUI # in the MAC address of your virtual machines. #allowAnyOUI = 1 [udp] # Timeout in seconds, 0 = no timeout, default = 60; real value might # be up to 100% longer timeout = 30 [dns] # This section applies only to Windows. # # Policy to use for DNS forwarding. Accepted values include order, # rotate, burst. # # order: send one DNS request at a time in order of the name servers # rotate: send one DNS request at a time, rotate through the DNS servers # burst: send to three servers and wait for the first one to respond policy = order; # Timeout in seconds before retrying DNS request. timeout = 2 # Retries before giving up on DNS request retries = 3 # Automatically detect the DNS servers (not supported in Windows NT) autodetect = 1 # List of DNS servers to use. Up to three may be specified #nameserver1 = 208.23.14.2 #nameserver2 = 63.93.12.3 #nameserver3 = 208.23.14.4 [netbios] # This section applies only to Windows. # Timeout for NBNS queries. nbnsTimeout = 2 # Number of retries for each NBNS query. nbnsRetries = 3 # Timeout for NBDS queries. nbdsTimeout = 3 [incomingtcp] # Use these with care - anyone can enter into your virtual machine through these... # FTP (both active and passive FTP is always enabled) # ftp localhost 8887 #8887 = 192.168.27.128:21 # WEB (make sure that if you are using named webhosting, names point to # your host, not to guest... And if you are forwarding port other # than 80 make sure that your server copes with mismatched port # number in Host: header) # lynx http://localhost:8888 #8888 = 192.168.27.128:80 # SSH # ssh -p 8889 root@localhost #8889 = 192.168.27.128:22 # # Added by AG for fun 18401 = 192.168.100.128:22 13139 = 192.168.100.128:139 [incomingudp] # UDP port forwarding example #6000 = 192.168.27.128:6001 ++++++ And my vmnetdhcp.conf # # Configuration file for VMware port of ISC 2.0 release running on # Windows NT and Windows 2000. # # This file is generated by the VMware installation procedure; it # is edited each time you add or delete a VMware host-only network # adapter. # # We set domain-name-servers to make some clients happy # (dhclient as configued in SuSE, TurboLinux, etc.). # We also supply a domain name to make pump (Red Hat 6.x) happy. # allow unknown-clients; default-lease-time 1800; # 30 minutes max-lease-time 7200; # 2 hours # Virtual ethernet segment 1 # Added at 12/23/02 16:38:42 subnet 192.168.23.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.23.128 192.168.23.254; # up to 126 VM's option broadcast-address 192.168.23.255; option domain-name-servers 192.168.23.1; option domain-name "localdomain"; } host VMnet1 { hardware ethernet 00:50:56:C0:00:01; fixed-address 192.168.23.1; option domain-name-servers 0.0.0.0; option domain-name ""; } # End # Virtual ethernet segment 8 # Added at 12/23/02 16:38:54 subnet 192.168.100.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.100.128 192.168.100.254; # up to 126 VM's option broadcast-address 192.168.100.255; option domain-name-servers 192.168.100.2; option domain-name "localdomain"; option netbios-name-servers 192.168.100.2; option routers 192.168.100.2; } host VMnet8 { hardware ethernet 00:50:56:C0:00:08; fixed-address 192.168.100.1; option domain-name-servers 0.0.0.0; option domain-name ""; option routers 0.0.0.0; } # End -- Ciao AG