Re: Xy4 on Win 8 /VMware / Win2K

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Bill, I am indeed talking about the VMware machine settings (in VMware,
not WinXP or W2K), as you guessed. I can't help you with W2K; I only
have WinXP, on my wife's machine, in VMware. It seems to have internet
access just fine, by default, if VMware networking (under the VMware
machine settings) is set to Bridged or NAT -- set to Host-only, I can
access a shared folder and files, but Internet Explorer cannot access
the Internet. So, for your purposes, that would seem to be safer,
instead of relying on a Bridged setting that doesn't seem to be working
properly.
But you mentioned you haven't "Configure[d] Adapters" -- I don't see
such a setting on my wife's machine in the VMware machine settings, but
the WinXP setup was created years ago; it's possible that I once worked
thru something like that to get Internet access, but I no longer
remember. Since then the player's been updated a couple times, as well,
and is now at version 6, I believe.

Paul
On 01/31/2014 05:06 PM, Bill Troop wrote:
Paul, I would love to know what setting you're talking about for
future reference, if you remember, and I wonder if I don't have
something like that going on in W2K? Ah: do you mean, in VMware, where
you choose 'Host-only' ? I will experiment with that. I would still
like to know why I am not getting internet access in W2K, but I am
reluctant to experiment because I am happy it is off.

At 31/01/2014 17:31, you wrote:
You're right, you need the network connection to access the host
drive (not something my wife does with her VMware setup), but you can
switch to a Host-only network to reduce your Internet exposure. In
WinXP in VMware, that setting stymies Internet Explorer, unlike
Bridged or NAT.

Paul
On 01/31/2014 08:31 AM, Bill Troop wrote:
There must be some anomaly in my setup, because I have both the
Connected and Connect at power on boxes checked.
I had assumed -- is this correct? -- that if I didn't, I would not
be able to access the host drive.
For network connexion, I have 'bridged' (the default); the rest of
the boxes are unchecked and I have not clicked on 'Configure Adapters'.

So I imagine there's some work left to do either in VMware or in Win2K.
But I am happy as a cat with the setup the way it is, since I don't
need updates and don't want to worry about antivirus.

At 31/01/2014 13:08, you wrote:
In VMware player, if you select the virtual machine, then select
Virtual Machine Settings from the Virtual Machine menu, the network
section of the settings has two checkboxes, one for Connected and
the other Connect at Power On. If the machine is not running, and
Connect at Power On is unchecked, a network connection should not
be automatically created when you start the virtual machine.
(Only caveat -- I'm doing this in Ubuntu, not Windows, but I would
think the setup is similar.)
Or you can uncheck the Connected box from the Player menu while the
machine is running.

Paul Lagasse

On 01/31/2014 07:24 AM, Myron Gochnauer wrote:
I've been using Parallels instead of VMware on my Mac for a while
now, but my recollection is that in the virtual machine
configuration menus you could enable or disable internet/network
access. With Parallels it is as simple as checking or unchecking
the "Connected" box. With VMware I seem to recall choosing the
type of network and perhaps a couple parameters. I had internet
access with W2K and then Win7 using VMware without really knowing
much about the details, so it can't be too difficult to set up!


On Jan 31, 2014, at 4:14 AM, Kari Eveli  wrote:
I am sure you can get it to connect, but running a browser under
W2K is a perilous exercise. But you need an Internet connection
to update the operating system to service pack 4, and other
Windows programs you might run under W2K. Alternatively, you can
download the updates for most programs using Win8 and copy them
to the W2K VM. Some programs may need to updated live, but you
should restrict connections to the Net to this category.