Port Forwarding

[U2XS]

I've read the documentation on port forwarding & I'm not sure how to make that work in Windows. Right now, the command that I have for my Linux guest is

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxHeadless.exe" --startvm Ubuntu

Would I then run the command again & type something like this?

VBoxManage modifyvm "Ubuntu" --natpf1 "guestssh,tcp,,2222,,22"

Or would I somehow concatenate it into one line?

[Perryg]

VBoxManage modifyvm "Ubuntu" --natpf1 "guestssh,tcp,,2222,,22"

Is a command to modify the guest and saves the information to the guest.xml or guest.vbox depending on your version and only needs to be run once (per guest).

[U2XS]

That's easy enough. Thanks

[U2XS]

I ran the following four commands to open up my FTP, SSH, Telnet & SMTP ports. However when I went to test Telnet & SSH with ports 2222 & 2323 it didn't work. Each command did create a command window which speedily processed some infromation & closed itself.

My guest is Ubuntu 11.04 (Alpha) & I did install OpenSSH Server. Did I miss a step?

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"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" --modifyvm "Ubuntu" --natpf1 "GuestFTP,tcp,,2121,,21"
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" --modifyvm "Ubuntu" --natpf1 "GuestSSH,tcp,,2222,,22"
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" --modifyvm "Ubuntu" --natpf1 "GuestTelnet,tcp,,22323,,23"
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" --modifyvm "Ubuntu" --natpf1 "GuestSMTP,tcp,,2525,,25"

[Perryg]

Did you try giving the forwards their own number?
natpf1,natpf2,natpf3,natpf4 instead of all of them trying to use the same name?

[U2XS]

Did you try giving the forwards their own number?
natpf1,natpf2,natpf3,natpf4 instead of all of them trying to use the same name?

Hmm, so I tried a few things. I did rename them to 1,2,3,4,etc. I also realized that the "--" before modifyvm was incorrect. However even when the command prompt was accepting the command, it still didn't work. Finally, I realized that the version of Virtualbox I have does have a GUI for this! So it was easy enough then & now it works. I do still wonder why it didn't work with the command line though. Thanks for the help!