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Hi need help here please !

I have installed sever 2008 on a Dell server having single ethernet adap with static IP 192.168.1.50 for the pupose of "RD session host server" and have then installed server 2003 which is a Domain controller and DNS server within Virtual box with static IP 192.168.1.100 and have assigned static IP to virtual host only network 192.168.1.130 with DHCP off and has virtualbox network settings as "Attached to: Bridge adapter", now the problem is i am not able to ping my host (server 08) from my guest (server 2003) and i cannot ping the DC from host (server 08), i have tried "Attached to: host only adapter" but same issue. Below is the IP config from both host and guest

HOST (server 08)

C:\Users\Administrator>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Server
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : D0-87-E5-EE-43-02
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.50(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 08-01-27-00-50-FC
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.130(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

GUEST (server 03)

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.DCSERVER>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : dcserver
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : chrisb.local
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : chrisb.local

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : AMD PCNET Family PCI Ethernet Adapte
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 08-01-27-63-0D-DE
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 127.0.0.1

How can i get this working please ?

Firstly if you are using Bridged you don't need the host-only adapter unless you also want it to be usable when you are not connected to the LAN.
I would make sure that ICMP is in fact enabled as by default it is not these days, and if it is I would check for a firewall issue.

Perryg wrote:Firstly if you are using Bridged you don't need the host-only adapter unless you also want it to be usable when you are not connected to the LAN.
I would make sure that ICMP is in fact enabled as by default it is not these days, and if it is I would check for a firewall issue.

Hi Perry,
Thanks for a quick reply i did infact find out that its the firewall that was causing the issue. thanks again.