Hi everyone,
I sure hope you all can help me out, as I am completely stumped on this one. Let me first give you my situation (setup, etc) and hopefully I'll be able to work through this.
I have my laptop, which is running Windows 7 Professional x64. On that laptop, I have VMWare Player version 5.0.2, which has Windows 7 Ultimate x86. On this Windows 7 Virtual Machine, I have installed PHP, Apache, and MySQL in order to run a personal wiki site that I have created. On the VM, I am able to navigate through the wiki with no problem (by going to the internet browser and typing in http://localhost/tiki), and it works as it should. What I am trying to do is be able to access said wiki site outside of the VM (i.e. from my laptop browser), or another computer like my desktop PC. I am familiar with the Virtual Network Editor and networking in general.
I have tried going through to process of setting up an NAT setup from online documentation, but nothing that I have tried works. I am able to ping the VM using the IP address I have found for VMNet1, but I cannot ping the VM using the VMNet8 for NAT. Is there something that I am doing wrong? Any help is appreciated, thanks.