Ok worked it out.

For some reason you can't network between the Mac and the Virtual PC
while you are using wireless networking... there has to be a physical
Ethernet cable in the machine connecting it to a hub to allow this to
happen. Even though you are actually connecting the Mac to itself.

Which is also a bit of a bummer, as one of the reasons for doing this
is so a client could run his site from a Mac while off the network.

Grrrr.... the things they don't tell you in the product specs.... Hmmm
I wonder if I made a dummy crossover cable by connecting pins 1 to 3
and 2 to 6 of an RJ45 plug I could fool it into thinking it was on a
network... anybody got a spare Mac lying around they want to test this
on? :)

bye



Friday, August 20, 2004, 2:02:33 PM, you wrote:

RS> Hi all, something slightly strange here...

RS> I'm running Virtual PC on a Mac that is on our LAN. I've installed CF
RS> on it and from within the Virtual PC environment I can browse to the
RS> CF administrator.

RS> I've set the Virtual PC up to have its own IP address. If I browse to
RS> that IP address from another machine on my LAN, I can see the CF
RS> Administrator fine.

RS> But if I browse to that IP address from the Mac that the Virtual PC is
RS> installed on, it tells me that "A connection failure has occurred". It
RS> is also not able to ping that IP address, but other machines on my LAN
RS> can ping it.

RS> Has anyone tried something like this before? I know its not completely
RS> on topic, but you guys are reeeeal clever.

RS> I've turned off the firewalls under both XP (running on VPC) and the
RS> Mac, but no difference. There are no proxies set as well.

RS> bye!

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