Hi!
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Frank Mehnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amit, > > On Friday 12 September 2008, Amit k. Saha wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Amit k. Saha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I have enabled NAT on my Linux guest, which has got its IP via DHCP. I >> > can communicate-'ssh', 'ping' to my Linux host. >> > >> > Now, I have a Web server running on the guest, I would like to access >> > it from the host browser. How would I do it? >> >> I have to use HIF ? > > Note that the property of NAT is that a machine behind a NAT router > is not directly accessible from the outside. So your guest can use > services from the host and from other machines, but other machines > and your host cannot directly access services on the guest. > > To make a guest service visible from the outside you can either use > host interface networking + bridging (this is the preferred method) > or you can forward dedicated ports of the host to the guest. Please > have a look at the user manual, both methods are described there. Thank you all for the inputs. I have done it: http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/entry/communicating_from_host_to_guest -Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitksaha.blogspot.com Skype: amitkumarsaha _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
