You want bridged.
if you use host-only, then windows can't get to any host other than
your Linux host; it can't get to the www or ftp (except to your local
machine) or anything.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Dear friends:
|
| This is a footnote to my earlier letter concerning Mandrake 7.0, VMware
| 2.0 and Win3.1.
|
| I have a single computer running Linux and a single virtual machine with
| Win3.1 on it. I have ADSL broadband (3com ethernet card) and I also use
| a U. S. Robotics 56k EXT modem as a backup for the ADSL.
|
| During installation, VMWARE recognized my DHCP protocol and suggested
| bridge network. That's what Settings also showed after installation
| (which was otherwise perfect). At the bottom of the main VMware screen I
| see icons for four devices: floppy, hard drive, CD AND ethernet0. The
| floppy icon works when I click on it and the hard drive. The CD is of no
| importance at this time. But the ethernet icon does not respond.
|
| BIG QUESTION OF THE DAY:
|
| After reading extensivly on this subject on VMware's support page
| (Documentation, Networking) at:
| http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/networking_linux.html, I can't
| help but wonder if perhaps what I really need is HOST-ONLY NETWORKING
| for the ethernet card. Bellsouth considers me to be on a LAN, and that
| is the way my ADSL was configured from the beginning (first under
| Windows95 and now under Linux). I hope to avoid Win95/98 at all costs in
| VMware. My interest is very specific: Windows Media Player 3.0 for
| Win3.1, which is equivalent, I think, to WMP 6.4 for Win96/98. I need
| this for live Russian broadcasting for my colleagues and myself, and TV6
| Moscow broadcasts, alas, only on WMP.
|
| What's your opinion, please? Bridge or host-only networking?
|
| Thank you so very much.
|
| Benjamin
|
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