Need help with telnet from VMware

[Steven Shatz]

I cannot figure out how to telnet from VMware to Linux on my laptop. I am running Windows 98 as the guest OS in VMware. I am using Red Hat 7.1 Linux and VMware Express v2.0.1.

I can telnet into my laptop (Linux) from other PCs and vice-versa. However, I cannot telnet or ping Linux on my laptop (or other PCs) from VMware on the same machine.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem? :confused:

[ 06 June 2001: Message edited by: Steven Shatz ]

[ 06 June 2001: Message edited by: Steven Shatz ]

[miker]

check out the FAQ's at vmware website.

sounds like you need to set up vmnet virtual network between host+guest

Does win98 come with a telnet client?

PuTTY is Win32 and uses SSH, much better IMHO

[Steven Shatz]

1. I have checked out the FAQ's at the VMware website, but I am still unable to solve my problem.

2. My laptop vendor installed VMware for me. As far as I can tell, the basic set up is correct, since everything except telnet works. (PS: My laptop vendor was also not able to fix this.)

3. Not only can I not telnet from VMware/Windows to Linux, but I cannot even ping Linux (from VM/Win). As for the telnet client, when I select "Run" from the Windows start menu & type "telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", a telnet program starts up and attempts to connect. The connection attempt fails, but it sure looks like there is a telnet client.

4. I have heard about PuTTY and would like to use it. And SSH is running on my laptop. However, I can use neither of these because I require AM65C (Alpha Micro) terminal emulation to communicate with my Linux application and the only 2 pgms I know of which provide this emulation do not support SSH.

I appreciate your help. Do you have any other suggestions?

Here are some more details: Ifconfig shows vmnet1 with IP addr 172.16.148.1 (subnet mask 255.255.255.0). Eth0 has an IP address of 216.179.58.178 (mask 255.255.255.248). I set up Windows to use 172.16.148.2 (mask 255.255.255.0) with DNS disabled and vmnet1 as the gateway.

Thank you.

[ 07 June 2001: Message edited by: Steven Shatz ]

[miker]

Okay, I can suggest a couple of things:

re-run the vmware setup perl script (I can't for the life of me remember what it's called, so refer to vmware online)

when you run it, it should offer to set the vmnet network up for you

also need to select on installation (somewhere, sorry to be vague again) that you wish to use bridged and/or host-only networking

mine is setup to use both so that both host and guest can use the 'real' outside network and also share files securely via samba on the vmnetwork. my host (linux) also provides dhcp services to vm's only on the private vmnetwork. again, all this was setup automatically by the perl script ---

aha! found it ...

have you run 'vmware-config.pl' ??

the only other thing I can think of ... ensure that the vmnet is installed in the vm! (shows up as AMD PCNet 10/100 I believe)

HTH!!