bt3 and xp as guests in vmware

[adroitlearner]

i am relatively new to the bt family. i have vmware ws 6.5 with bt3 and xp as the guests. xp sp 3 as the host. i am not able to ping or access xp from bt3 but can access (ping) bt3 from xp guest. i want to install xp or other win os as guests and try their vulnerabilities from bt. Can some one help me on this.

[Mr. Flibble]

Do you get a time out? Is the firewall on your XP image turned on?

[adroitlearner]

I dont think i get a time out...ping hangs when i cntrl c then it says X amount of packets transmitted, replies nil , hence all X packets lost. As for the firewall, if you are referring to the windows firewall, its off (i think), i shall confirm once i go back home and check it. On second thought, am i fumbling in the networking in vmware. i am using host only at present. Thank u.

[KMDave]

You should change it to NAT or Bridged.

[Archangel-Amael]

Another classic example of not being spoonfed and the OP found an answer and probably learned something along the way.

[adroitlearner]

Another classic example of not being spoonfed and the OP found an answer and probably learned something along the way.

yes, archangel i agree with you. as a newbie me too depended on lot of spoonfeeding until my one of my fren put it across so nicely that i should learn on my own. Thank u for your reminder. But i assure i ve put in a lot of efforts

[adroitlearner]

Do you get a time out? Is the firewall on your XP image turned on?

THANK U MR FLIBBLE, all that i had to do was to turn off my guest xp firewall OFF. Thank you. As for Dave s comments. Dave i did use nat earlier. infact i configured both my vm s on another switch vmnet 5 with nat on but it did nt work but now i get the reason the firewall was ON. Thank you alllllll so much. I now can start the implementation of bt3 on my xp . thanx FLIBBLE

[Archangel-Amael]

yes, archangel i agree with you. as a newbie me too depended on lot of spoonfeeding until my one of my fren put it across so nicely that i should learn on my own. Thank u for your reminder. But i assure i ve put in a lot of efforts

Hope you understand that that was/is a compliment.

[adroitlearner]

hey archangel, i did take your advice very positively. thank u and sorry if my comment has in anyways given you a wrong impression. Thanks