Hi. Been playing with vmware-server (1.0.3-1) on Ubuntu feisty. The guest is Win2K pro (SP4) running in bridged network mode. It DHCP's its address and can connect fine to the Internet and all hosts on my local network except to the vmware host itself. W2k can ping the host and the host can ping it. W2k does register itself with samba... root at steelix:src# smbclient -L localhost Password: Anonymous login successful Domain=[DRAGONLAIR] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.24] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- public Disk Public Folder hplj3200 Printer HP Laserjet 3200 IPC$ IPC IPC Service (steelix server (Samba 3.0.24)) Virtual_Printer Printer PDF Printer Lexmark_E320_USB_1 Printer Lexmark E320 (tattu) HP_LaserJet_3200_USB_1 Printer HP LaserJet 3200 HP_DESKJET_895C_USB_2 Printer HP DESKJET 895C Anonymous login successful Domain=[DRAGONLAIR] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.24] Server Comment --------- ------- STEELIX steelix server (Samba 3.0.24) ZUBAT Dell Workgroup Master --------- ------- DRAGONLAIR STEELIX VMWARE PICACHU If W2k trys to ssh to the host with putty, this is what the host sees: root at steelix:src# tcpdump host 192.168.10.191 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes 13:26:59.160734 IP 192.168.10.191.1128 > steelix.hissingdragon.net.ssh: S 1440047258:1440047258(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK> 13:27:04.356071 IP steelix.hissingdragon.net.ssh > 192.168.10.191.1128: S 1095796684:1095796684(0) ack 1440047259 win 5840 <mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK> 13:26:59.162033 IP 192.168.10.191.1128 > steelix.hissingdragon.net.ssh: . ack 1 win 65535 13:27:00.135060 IP steelix.hissingdragon.net.ssh > 192.168.10.191.1128: P 1:39(38) ack 1 win 5840 13:27:03.135392 IP steelix.hissingdragon.net.ssh > 192.168.10.191.1128: P 1:39(38) ack 1 win 5840 13:27:09.135479 IP steelix.hissingdragon.net.ssh > 192.168.10.191.1128: P 1:39(38) ack 1 win 5840 6 packets captured 6 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel .. so the host (steelix) sees the ssh request and trys to respond, but W2k (picachu ..191) never (apparently) gets the reply. Same thing for W2k trying to connect to the apache service on the host. I first noticed the problem when W2k could not find the DRAGONLAIR domain. Any ideas? And no, there is no firewalling going on here. ~jh