> Hi I've been browsing other posts on the web and in this group, and
> I've found problems that sound similar, but nothing exactly like my
> problem.
>
> My problem is that from a Vista desktop machine on my home LAN, I
> can't ping or resolve the name of my VM, but I can remote desktop to
> it if I give it's IP address explicitly. I can't do this from the
> host machine either.
>
> My set up is as follows;
> VS 2005 r2 sp1 running on VISTA ultimate host. VM is Windows Server
> 2003 Standard.
> My DNS server is my Netgear combined Internet modem/router/firewall.
>
> It seems to me that some low-level protocols need to be enabled on my
> host PC firewall, but I'm not sure which.
>
> I'd appreciate any help on this.
>
> Regards,
> Mark