[NTLUG:Discuss] configuring vmware 4 running linux and verizon wireless

[Lenrek Xunil]

After doing some searching, I found the following article:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws2/doc/hostonly_w2k_ws_win.html

It turns out I had to enable internet connection sharing for my
verizon service, and tunnel it through the VMWare virtual device. 
This is a Windows 2000 built-in feature.  I used VMNet8.  I booted up
Linux in VMware and was able to pull up a non-cached web page.  I am
very happy now.  The thought of installing cygwin just wasn't
appealing to me (although I downloaded the iso).

Well, in case anyone encounters this, this is what you have to do.


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:23:14 -0600, Lenrek Xunil <lenrek.xunil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Terry Wrote:
> >So you cannot ping valid domain names, right?  [But] - Can you ping
> >any [valid] IP addresses?  In particular, can you ping the nameserver
> >you're using, or attempting to use?
> 
> I can ping google.com and I get and ip address.  There are several
> replies, but they are a bit slow.  VMNET8 is set to 192.168.16.0.  I
> can mount a host machine share from linux using 192.168.16.1 and it
> works fine.  I turned the firewall in linux off.
> 
> Thanks for your responses.  I am not home to try your suggestions, but
> I will try them.  I do think the issue, though, is that I don't know
> how to get VMWare to go through the verzion "dial-up" connection.  In
> any case, I will look at your suggestions and examine this in more
> detail.  I also think I am going to try to connect to putty and see if
> I can ssh from the windows machine to make sure that my isp makes that
> port available.
>