We found a network bridging issue for a client running VMWare workstation 10. The VM would ‘sometimes’ connect to the production / corporate network and obtain a DHCP address. Othertimes it would not and it would get an APIPA address instead. (169.254.x.x) Various internet posts suggested Disconnecting the Virtual nic – NO SUCCESS Upgrade the […]
We had a stupid applicaiton that published itself from a network share – including the help files. Windows introduced security for this from Internet explorer to block these from running etc to change the security for these help files to be displayed follow this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054 REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftHTMLHelp1.xItssRestrictions] “MaxAllowedZone”=dword:00000001
Situation: We were running Windows Nt 4.0 on VMWARE with Vmware Tools 4.0. We needed to upgrade to VMWARE Tools 7.0 (including the Hardware) The tools upgraded easily (surprisingly) but after the power off, snapshot, and upgrade HW of the virtual server, the network stopped working. Logging on the server was using cached credentials (first obvious error) […]