Mailing List virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #17

From:	"Cliff Scott" <virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [Virtualized eCS]Accessing network shares from guest (was: Re: [Virtualized eCS][eCS-Technical] VBOX question)
Date:	Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:57:32 -0500
To:	"Virtualized eCS Users Mailing List" <virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com>

** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal" <virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com> on Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:20:58 -0400 > Hi again... > > On 09/13/09 06:57 pm, Cliff Scott thus wrote : > > ** Reply to message from Lewis G Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com> on > > Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:45:04 -0400 > > > > > >> Hi, Cliff... > >> > >> On 09/12/09 10:51 pm, Cliff Scott thus wrote : > >> > >>> ** Reply to message from Lewis G Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com> on > >>> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:17:06 -0400 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi, Cliff... > >>>> > >>>> On 09/12/09 08:59 am, Cliff Scott thus wrote : > >>>> > >>>> > <snip> > >>>>> Has anyone gotten printing to work running W2K as the guest? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> Printing works under XP, but I'm printing to network printers and not > >>>> locally. Thus, I would expect printing to work just as it would on bare > >>>> metal. > >>>> > <snip> > >>> I just had a thought regarding printing - You say that network printing works > >>> for you. Are you printing via TCPIP? > >>> > >> Yes, through Novell NetWare, but the printers are all talking IP. > >> > >>> My wife's windows machine on our local > >>> network has the printer shared. I wonder if there is a way to connect to that > >>> share. Do you think that should work? It says it can't see the peer network. > >>> Guess I'll have to play with it and see what happens. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Yes, that's easy. You should be able to browse for a network printer > >> from the Add Printer Wizard (I *hate* those dumb "wizard" things which > >> M$ pushes). If that doesn't work, try entering the explicit share name, > >> e.g., \\COMPUTER\PRINTER . You should be able to get to it. Make sure > >> that the blasted Windows firewall on the host (the machine hosting the > >> printer) is either off or allowing connections to its shares (no, the > >> firewall isn't always modified upon enabling a shared resource...don't ask). > >> > >>> BTW, I thought of putting this on your Virtualization list, but there hasn't > >>> been any traffic there so I figured no one would see it. Guess, if this > >>> discussion goes any further we should to that. > >>> > > > > Tried and no connection to the printer. The local peer network is on a > > different net than the DHCP in VBox gives. Trying to give the VBox a fixed IP > > doesn't work either. I'm using the Nat network access since the other driver > > messes up networking on the host computer. The Vbox machine says it can't > > access the peer network which I understand since Netbeui isn't loaded. Ideas? > > > > > Native NetBIOS is non-routable. Thus, it's not possible to have > \\MYCOMPUTER on one LAN segment and \\YOURCOMPUTER on another and have > them see each other. However, as long as both IP networks are routed, > i.e., connected via a router, such that mycomputer.lan1 (or, > 192.168.1.11) can see (ping) yourcomputer.lan2 (192.168.0.13), then > accessing shares via IP is possible: \\192.168.1.11\SHARENAME. Windows > understands that the dotted notation implies IP and not NetBIOS, and > *should* get the data from one place to the other. You don't mean a physical router do you? Is there a way to software route the two networks together since they are both on the same physical computer. I'm afraid I'm not to savvy on the fine points of networking. > I'm more curious, though, as to what your networking troubles are with > the virtual machine. The only card I can't get to work with host > networking is the wireless interface. Other than that, wired connections > work fine, and my guest has its own virtual interface. It gets an > address on the same subnet as my host machine. How did you did you get "its own virtual interface"? DHCP gives an address that is on a different subnet than my local network. I tried giving it a fixed IP address on my subnet and lost internet connection and it didn't seem to work anyway as far as accessing the peer network. > Here's a snippet (well, greatly abbreviated, but only for clarity) from > PROTOCOL.INI: > > [PROT_MAN] > > DRIVERNAME = PROTMAN$ > > [IBMLXCFG] > > tcpip_nif = tcpip.nif > TAP_nif = tap.nif > W14E4X167D_nif2 = W14E4X167D.nif > > [tcpip_nif] > > DriverName = TCPIP$ > Bindings = W8086X4224_nif,TAP_nif > > [TAP_nif] > > DriverName = TAP$ > HandleArps = 1 > > > In CONFIG.SYS, I am loading the TAP driver, obviously. > > A snippet from the xml defining my XP guest says: > > <Network> > <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="0800278739B6" > cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"> > <HostInterface TAPBridge="lan0" name="TAP$"/> > </Adapter> > <Adapter slot="1" enabled="false" MACAddress="0800271ECE0D" > cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"> > <Adapter slot="2" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027ECC3AD" > cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/> > <Adapter slot="3" enabled="false" MACAddress="080027F5508C" > cable="true" speed="0" type="Am79C973"/> > </Network> The big difference is that I don't have the Tap driver loaded. I've tried, albeit with the 1.56 version of Vbox, and it kills my normal networking and makes the MPTS object very slow, to the point of not working at all. The only way I could fix it was to boot to another system and the remove the driver files so the next boot couldn't load the driver. This happened on RC7 as well as RC4. I also have the NetBIOS loaded to get the peer network working between two eCS computers. NetBIOS over TCPIP is loaded by default during install. The only networking Vbox is using here is the NAT driver. Maybe I'm missing some key point that will make it work, but so far no go here. See snippets of my Protocol.ini below: [PROT_MAN] DRIVERNAME = PROTMAN$ [IBMLXCFG] netbeui_nif = netbeui.nif tcpbeui_nif = tcpbeui.nif tcpip_nif = tcpip.nif B57_nif = B57.NIF [NETBIOS] DriverName = netbios$ ADAPTER1 = netbeui$,1 ADAPTER0 = tcpbeui$,0 [netbeui_nif] DriverName = netbeui$ Bindings = ,B57_nif ETHERAND_TYPE = "I" . . Snipped . [tcpbeui_nif] DriverName = tcpbeui$ Bindings = B57_nif NODETYPE = "B-Node" OS2TRACEMASK = 0x0 SESSIONS = 130 NCBS = 225 NAMES = 21 SELECTORS = 15 USEMAXDATAGRAM = "NO" NETBIOSTIMEOUT = 500 NETBIOSRETRIES = 2 NAMECACHE = 1000 PURGECACHE = 0 PRELOADCACHE = "NO" NAMESFILE = 0 DATAGRAMPACKETS = 20 PACKETS = 50 ENABLEDNS = 0 INTERFACERATE = 300 [tcpip_nif] DriverName = TCPIP$ Bindings = B57_nif [B57_nif] DriverName = B57$ -- Cliff eCS 2.0RC7

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