Connectivity between Solaris 10 in VMWare and windows Host

UNIX Solaris
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I have installed Open Solaris 10 on VMware which is hosted on Windows XP, my PC.

I would like to have a connection between Solaris and Windows, so that i can SSH/Telnet from windows to Solaris. I don't have any Internet connection.

Please help me with the network connection settings i have to change in Solaris and windows.

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Hi,

If you are using VMWare, usually VMWare creates some virtual network device. You may check those virtual network device. Mine (in Ubuntu) called vmnet1, vmnet8.

Then, check whether your Virtual-Machine is NAT or bridged. Usually it is NAT.

So, if your Virtual-Machine is NAT, and your vmnet8 address is for example: 172.16.20.1, then your all Virtual-Machines would be 172.16.20.2-254

Easier Trick:
If your Virtual-Machine is NAT, the default gateway of Virtual-Machine is the IP-Address of your Real-Machine.

Give it a try :slight_smile:

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AM a newbie... can you please explain in detail. Any other link to this will suffice.:slight_smile:

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Form your Solaris, run this:

# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
e1000g0: flags=1004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
        inet 172.16.240.129 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.16.240.255
        ether 0:c:29:64:3b:37

That 172.16.240.129 is my Solaris VM IP-Address.
So, from my windows, just putty (or any other ssh client) to that IP-Address.

I think yours maybe the same.