David Mohundro - Ping, VPN, etc from Windows XP Mode

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I just wanted to share a quick tip on something that had been tripping me up. I’ve happily been running Windows 7 x64 for around a month now. At work, our VPN hardware doesn’t support 64-bit (different topic, don’t ask), so I wanted to use the VPN client from within Windows XP Mode. Sounds good, right?

One problem. The VPN client couldn’t see outside networks. In fact, I couldn’t even ping.

Attempting to ping from XPM

The default networking adapter seems to be “Shared Networking (NAT)” – just change it to your actual network adapter.

Networking adapter settings

Success!

Successful ping!

Windows 7

posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:15:16 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

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Thursday, November 05, 2009 4:17:34 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Hi,

Thanks very much for this post. I got Windows 7 a few days ago and have been trying to access my webserver in Windows XP Mode from IE in Windows 7 ever since! Your post has saved me from tearing any more hair out! ;)

Cheers,

Cj

Chris

Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:27:10 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks for the comment Chris, glad I could help!

David Mohundro

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