Unable to connect to VM from localhost via bridged connectio

[sandro]

Hi,

I just installed an Ubuntu guest on a Win7 host and configured a bridged connection which appears to work. I can ping from the guest and from the host and I can connect from other machines to the guest.

However a TCP connection (ping works as mentioned) directly from the host to the guest returns an error.

Would anyone know if I missed a configuration?
Thanks.

[noteirak]

However a TCP connection (ping works as mentioned) directly from the host to the guest returns an error.

if the ping works, everything is good on the side of Virtualbox. Nothing we can do here.

Some questions you should ask yousefl : What error? Is the port open in the guest OS? How do you try to connect via TCP (Application, telnet)? What is the status of the firewall?

[sandro]

The host's firewall (Windows firewall) is disabled.

TCP connections generally dont seem to work FROM the host TO the guest (be it telnet, browser, .....) but they DO work FROM OTHER machines on the network TO the guest.

[noteirak]

Then the issue is on the host, and you should look into that.

[sandro]

I wouldnt rule that out but I wouldnt know where to start.

As I said, Windows' firewall is disabled, there are no others and network connections in general work fine.

[noteirak]

Could you give a step-by-step with the exact commands and addresses you use from your host and from other machines to the guest?

[sandro]

I have a bridged connection, so I have a LAN valid IP.

Pinging it works from the host as well as from other machines. Only using the same IP to connect via TCP (in this case HTTP to a webserver) only works from other machines. The host gives me using telnet a "connection failed" (which I assume would be a connection refused).

If there was a firewall I'd understand it but Windows' firewall is disabled (I triple checked it) and there is no other. On the guest side, "iptables --list" also returns an empty list.

[noteirak]

Please read my post again - cannot help you like this

[sandro]

I am not quite sure what commands you refer to.
As I said, I tried to connect to port 80 via telnet (telnet [address] 80) and via a browser. The address was always the same one, the one LAN-valid assigned to the bridged adapter via DHCP.

If this is not the information you were asking for please let me know.

However, I managed to fix it for the time being by switching to vmware, where it worked straight out-of-the-box.

[noteirak]

What I was asking was also the IP addresses you were using.
But if you're happy with VMware, that's fine.

[sandro]

It is 192.168.0.31. What would you reckon?

[noteirak]

Let's stop this madness for a second.
IF you still have your Virtualbox machine, run the following commands on the host and on the guest, and post back the results as attachement of a zip file.

On the host :
ipconfig /all
netstat -abn

On the guest :
ifconfig
netstat -lnp
iptables -nv -L