DigitalE Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Hello. I am running Vista Ultimate and VMWare 6, and I have encountered a strange problem. VMWare installs it's own virtual network drivers, which appear in Network and Sharing Center as their own connections. However, it automatically sets them as a Public network, which disables some file and printer sharing settings. The reason this causes a problem is that I share all my music to my Xbox 360 (over my physical wireless network adapter), but the 360 can't access the music when the virtual networks are set to Public. Sure, I can use the "Customize" option and change the virtual networks to Private, but they just reset back to Public after a restart. Is there a way to permanently set these as Private, and maybe even change the name of the network so it doesn't appear as "Unidentified?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acrophile Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I would suggest disabling dhcp & nat and removing the vmware adpaters... I find them to be a nuisance... you can just use the built-in bridging in vmware to allow network access... Edit -> Virtual Network Settings... remove the adapters, tell the dhcp & nat services to "stop"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc2003 Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 ^^yup. that's exactly what i do. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalE Posted May 25, 2007 Author Share Posted May 25, 2007 Thanks! I didn't know that you could still use the internet in a VM if you disabled the virtual network adapters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FxGP Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 Hello.I am running Vista Ultimate and VMWare 6, and I have encountered a strange problem. VMWare installs it's own virtual network drivers, which appear in Network and Sharing Center as their own connections. However, it automatically sets them as a Public network, which disables some file and printer sharing settings. The reason this causes a problem is that I share all my music to my Xbox 360 (over my physical wireless network adapter), but the 360 can't access the music when the virtual networks are set to Public. Sure, I can use the "Customize" option and change the virtual networks to Private, but they just reset back to Public after a restart. Is there a way to permanently set these as Private, and maybe even change the name of the network so it doesn't appear as "Unidentified?" ' Check out this recently written article showing how to address this issue: http://www.frameworkx.com/contentblogdetai...g=57&id=690 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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