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Hello everyone:) this is my first post here.

I have seen other issues like mine but none of them are the same or show me anything than really helps me.
So what im trying to do is host a server on my Win2003 and i cant seem to get it to go to the outside world. I have tried NAT which i didnt think would work, and it didnt. So then i tried Host Interface. That is a little more promising, but i cant figure out how to get it to push out to the internet. Can anyone help me?

First welcome to the forum.

• Next you will need to use Bridged to be able to do everything that you need to do. As for the outside world that will be a little more of a trick.
  You should get it to working local and then you should try to make the World Wide Web your second endeavor.

When i start up Win2003Server on bridged it says, and frequently tells me there is an IP address conflict with another system on the network. When i used bridged it gives my guests the same IP as my host.

You need to use bridged and either use DHCP or (preferred) use a static address that in the same address scheme but not the same as any other PC on your lan.

You can use ping to test the IP address and if it returns nothing then you can use it. If it returns an address found then you need to try a different address.

I use auto DHCP currently. i can set it to be static for the local though. the thing that gets me is, it comes back as the last 8 bits are different than my host computers last 8 bits in the IP so i dont see where the problem is. my guest can serve, and it can pick up its own server, but my host computer cannot see the server.

I just made a small breakthrough... I installed a simple FTP server on my guest and host. Here is what i tested.

From Guest:
Pinged guest, 0% packet loss, loopback interface is good.
Pinged host machine, 50-75% packet loss, some got through, some didnt.

From Host:
Started FTP server. Guest saw it, and host recognized that the guest was trying to connect, but failed with a timeout.
Started FTP server on Guest. Host could not see it at all.


How does this make sense at all? im not sure whats going on