Question
In order to take our new TWiki with me so that I can do the setup and customization while I'm on the road, I have it installed on my laptop and am running it with VMware Player. One of our programmers set it up for me and it works fine ... as long as the laptop can find an available (wireless) network. If a network is not available, I receive a "Page Cannot Be Found" message in my browser. Is there a work around or setting that will allow me to access twiki without the availablity of a network? TIA! -- Kim
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KimIsiminger - 12 Jun 2006
Answer
I'm afraid part of what makes the VM solution easy is that you have access to a DHCP service which will ensure that the two machines are put on the same network segment, "visible" to each other.
Once you are in an environment with no DHCP service, you need to take this task on yourself - giving the two machines network connectivity to each other.
I think there are more solutions to this:
- Tweak the vmware DHCP service to work for both machines
- Install a DHCP service locally on the windows xp machine
- Manually apply usable network settings to the two machines (fixed IP addresses etc)
- Run the player in NAT'ed mode and tweak samba service / windows client to ensure visibility.
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guess the easiest solution is to somehow enable a local DHCP service on XP for the times you are offline, the sad part is that I have no specific ideas on how to accomplish this :-/ (Usually setting up the "Internet Connection Sharing" (ICS) functionality involves setting XP up as a DHCP server, this might be part of the solution).
Other far out idea: Perhaps start up a virtual appliance that has a DHCP service first (perhaps something like SmoothWall -
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/47) and see if that will provide the two machines with usable IP addresses?
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SteffenPoulsen - 12 Jun 2006
Thanks for the input Steffen, I'm back from my trip now but I'll put the real techie guys to work on this for future.
Kim
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KimIsiminger - 22 Jun 2006
It now (2008) is easy with VM Player 2.0.4 build-93057. Just switch to Host-Only under Ethernet. Then reset the VM-Player, log-in and you will get the stand-alone.
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RandolfIsenberg - 06 Aug 2008