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vaxen
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‎02-22-2007 12:45 PM

Networking not working between host and guest

Hi, I am running vmware 5.5.3.34685. My host is linux 2.6.20 and guest is WinXP. The guest is connected to the network via bridge networking. The host is connected to my router using NAT. Both the host and guest have their own IP 192.168.7.x and is on the same subnet. I've setup samba server on the host and the guest WinXP is able to browse the shares. The problem occurs when I try to copy files from the host to the guest. The copying just hangs. I have also tried using winscp to copy files from my host's sshd. Winscp copies a few bytes and complains the netwok is not responding. Any idea what could be the problem here?

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vaxen
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‎02-22-2007 12:48 PM

The guest is able to download at high speed from the internet. Its only host and guest that it doesn't work.

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vaxen
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‎02-23-2007 08:37 AM

No help?

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telfred
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‎02-23-2007 08:58 AM

Can the guest copy files to the host ?

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vaxen
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‎03-02-2007 09:11 AM

Yes, surprisingly. The guest (winxp) can write to my host (linux samba).

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vaxen
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‎03-02-2007 10:19 AM

I've setup a windows share folder in the guest (winxp). Copying from host to the guest using the windows share server is slow, and copying from guest to host is fast. Whats going on?

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vaxen
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‎03-02-2007 07:31 PM

Since winscp doesn't work. I doubt it has to do with my samba setup. It is either vmware workstation bug or its my network card. I have doubts that it is a hardware problem since its the same issue on my laptop.

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vaxen
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‎03-06-2007 11:05 AM

I can confirm this is an issue with the linux driver(sky2) for my integrated network card(yukon2)

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