> I wouldn't do it that way at all. How does the host connect to the
> Internet? I can't see any reason for running ICS on the host. SBS2003 can
> give your virtual machines Internet access. That is one of the things it is
> designed to do.
>
> Disable the NICs which connect to the loopback adapter (ie have the two
> virtual machines in local only). If they have IP addresses in the same IP
> subnet, they will be able to ping each other. Better still, give the server
> a static IP and then set up DHCP for the virtual clients.
>
> When you have SBS and client working properly on the LAN, you can think
> about Internet access. SBS has the necessary software to do this. So at this
> stage you enable a second NIC on the SBS server for its external connection.
> (You will need to modify DNS on the SBS server, as you would on a "real"
> SBS). If your host is on a LAN with an Internet connection, simply use the
> physical NIC of the host option. You will only need a loopback adapter if
> you connect to the Intenet through a modem on the host.
>
> Dave wrote:
> > I can't get two virtual machines to talk to each other. One is XP
> > sp2. The other is SBS 2003. Each have two network adapters, one for
> > the local only and the other is set for the Microsoft loopback
> > adapter (which is setup to share a network connection on the host
> > machine). Each computer can ping the host computer and get to the
> > internet fine. But the ping times out when I ping the other computer.
> > If I ping the host name of the other Virtual Machine it will ping
> > 192.168.0.x - the address given by the loopback adapter setup for
> > network sharing.
> > I have the IP address on the Local Only adapters set static to
> > 10.1.1.x on both the computer (so that I don't have to wait 2 minutes
> > for it to make up the 169.x.x.x address). If I ping the 10.1.1.x
> > address it times out.
> > If just the Local Only is setup on each, is still doesn't work.
> > I have had VPC 2004 SP1 installed and I uninstalled it and
> > reinstalled VPC 2004 to see if it was a SP1 problem.
> > Why won't these two VPC's connect even in Local Only mode???
>
>
>

> I can't get two virtual machines to talk to each other. One is XP
> sp2. The other is SBS 2003. Each have two network adapters, one for
> the local only and the other is set for the Microsoft loopback
> adapter (which is setup to share a network connection on the host
> machine). Each computer can ping the host computer and get to the
> internet fine. But the ping times out when I ping the other computer.
> If I ping the host name of the other Virtual Machine it will ping
> 192.168.0.x - the address given by the loopback adapter setup for
> network sharing.
> I have the IP address on the Local Only adapters set static to
> 10.1.1.x on both the computer (so that I don't have to wait 2 minutes
> for it to make up the 169.x.x.x address). If I ping the 10.1.1.x
> address it times out.
> If just the Local Only is setup on each, is still doesn't work.
> I have had VPC 2004 SP1 installed and I uninstalled it and
> reinstalled VPC 2004 to see if it was a SP1 problem.
> Why won't these two VPC's connect even in Local Only mode???

> Great. It seems to be working now. I put the Local only as the first
> adapter on both machines and that seems to be the trick.
> I use the second adapter on the XP machine when I don't need the SBS
> server running for the testing that I do.
> Thanks for the help. I had been battleing this for a couple days.
>
> "Bill Grant" wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't do it that way at all. How does the host connect to
>> the Internet? I can't see any reason for running ICS on the host.
>> SBS2003 can give your virtual machines Internet access. That is one
>> of the things it is designed to do.
>>
>> Disable the NICs which connect to the loopback adapter (ie have
>> the two virtual machines in local only). If they have IP addresses
>> in the same IP subnet, they will be able to ping each other. Better
>> still, give the server a static IP and then set up DHCP for the
>> virtual clients.
>>
>> When you have SBS and client working properly on the LAN, you
>> can think about Internet access. SBS has the necessary software to
>> do this. So at this stage you enable a second NIC on the SBS server
>> for its external connection. (You will need to modify DNS on the SBS
>> server, as you would on a "real" SBS). If your host is on a LAN with
>> an Internet connection, simply use the physical NIC of the host
>> option. You will only need a loopback adapter if you connect to the
>> Intenet through a modem on the host.
>>
>> Dave wrote:
>>> I can't get two virtual machines to talk to each other. One is XP
>>> sp2. The other is SBS 2003. Each have two network adapters, one for
>>> the local only and the other is set for the Microsoft loopback
>>> adapter (which is setup to share a network connection on the host
>>> machine). Each computer can ping the host computer and get to the
>>> internet fine. But the ping times out when I ping the other
>>> computer. If I ping the host name of the other Virtual Machine it
>>> will ping 192.168.0.x - the address given by the loopback adapter
>>> setup for network sharing.
>>> I have the IP address on the Local Only adapters set static to
>>> 10.1.1.x on both the computer (so that I don't have to wait 2
>>> minutes for it to make up the 169.x.x.x address). If I ping the
>>> 10.1.1.x address it times out.
>>> If just the Local Only is setup on each, is still doesn't work.
>>> I have had VPC 2004 SP1 installed and I uninstalled it and
>>> reinstalled VPC 2004 to see if it was a SP1 problem.
>>> Why won't these two VPC's connect even in Local Only mode???