You should see a Linux based station as the IP address for the Linux computer if you scan from the network.
The Windows 2000 Pro VM may be scannable (or possibly some services on it could be if they are made publically accessible on the outside network) depending on whether it is using a 'bridged', 'NATted' or 'host only' network connection. 1. Bridged. If the Windows 2000 Pro VM has been given a public IP address on the network (e.g. a separate IP # which is bridged by VMWARE) then the Windows 2000 Pro virtual computer should also be scannable from the network. Note that the Linux IP address would be separate from the Windows 2000 Pro IP address and they would appear to be two completely different machines when scanned from the network. 2. NAT If the Windows 2000 Pro virtual machine has been set up as with a NAT (Network Address Translation) network configuration which just exists inside VMWARE (and then shares the IP address of the host OS) any access from the Windows 2000 Pro VM would have to go to the greater outside network by having the private internal IP address (and in some cases port #) translated use the IP address of the host OS (and possibly a new port #). Incoming traffic is similarly translated by NAT mode. For the most part the the Windows 2000 Pro computer would not be visible nor scannable from the (outside) network. However, if you were able to expose a service port with a server listening to it running on the W2K Pro VM to the outside world (via NAT and the host OS) then that particular service could be scanned. I've never played with the NAT functionality within VMWARE so I don't know if it is possible to expose a server process to the network outside of the host OS or if only client IP access from within the VMWARE NAT environ is possible. 3. Host-only mode In host only mode there is theoretically no direct network access from the outside network, neither to nor from the VM (virtual machine, W2K Pro in this case). The VM is isolated and only connected to the host OS through a fake private network. It should not be possible to scan the VM from the (outside) network at all. If the VM can get to a proxy service running on the host OS it may be able to access the outside network via proxy. And there are reverse proxies (which work in the reverse direction) so services in the VM environment could potentially be explicitly made available to the outside network (and hence to scanning of the particular service). H. Morrow Long Bruschi, Augusto Mr., (Systems Administration) wrote:
Hello all,
question: if I scan a station that has Linux as host operating system and Windows 2000 Pro as guest operating system using VMWare software what will I see? A Linux based station or a Windows based station?
Thank you and good work to all.
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