I am running a VMware Server Beta version and the guest OS is Fedora Core 4. The host is Windows XP Pro SP 2.
Fedora has IP address of 192.168.248.128. I can ping it from Windows cmd line. I can ping the windows host from Fedora too.
I started apache 2 on port 8080 on Fedora and I have an index.html in /var/www/html.
I am not able to hit http://192.168.248.128:8080 from a browser on Windows to view index.html.
This runs fine and displays Hello world in the browser when I hit it from within Fedora. The URL I use is http://localhost:8080/index.html
When i try to browse the page, it tries for a long time, then comes out with this error:
Network Error (tcp_error)
A communication error occurred: ""
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.
Here is the ipconfig output on my host(Windows):
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.248.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.57.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : undisclosed.com
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.84.202
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.84.1
Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Here is the ifconfig -a output on my guest (Fedora):
\[root@mybox html]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:5C:6E:29
inet addr:192.168.248.128 Bcast:192.168.248.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe5c:6e29/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:595 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:374 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:65715 (64.1 KiB) TX bytes:54129 (52.8 KiB)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1080
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1631 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1631 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2123078 (2.0 MiB) TX bytes:2123078 (2.0 MiB)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
I am able to ssh into the Fedora guest from my windows host too.
Is there something I am missing here?