vmware: can't ping host

2001-08-24 Thread Titus Barik
Okay, I probably screwed something up again, so if you guys could help out it would be great. So I installed VMware today using the .tar.gz file available from their website, extracted, ran ./vmware-install and installed to /usr/local. I selected all the defaults during the install otherwise

Re: vmware: can't ping host

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Majors
I run VMWare here at work on Debian. I set up my networking as Bridged. I don't remember exactly, but I think Host Only won't let you out to the network. Try bridged mode and see if you can connect out from your VM. And make sure you have win98's networking installed correctly (but you probably

Re: vmware: can't ping host

2001-08-24 Thread Titus Barik
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Jason Majors wrote: Windows. However, I can ping the virtual machine from the host. What did I break? The correct answer to this question is that I'm a moron. I'm supposed to ping 172.16.66.1 NOT my real host IP (128.61.40.17) to get access to the machine. Why is it