I have a Windows 8.1 Pro desktop and I'm trying to set up a lab on that machine where a Windows Server 2008R2 VM (VM client 1) hosts an application that a Windows 7 Pro VM (VM client 2) accesses. I have both VM clients installed and running, but I'm having problems connecting them to each other.

I set up each client with an internal virtual switch that connected to my wireless adapter to connect to the internet. I can ping my desktop from the clients, but not client-to-client. Any help or pointers to documentation is appreciated.

Edit - I can ping the Windows 7 VM client from the Windows Server 2008R2 VM and from my desktop. I cannot ping the Windows Server 2008R2 VM from either my desktop or the Windows 7 VM. Maybe something about WS 2008 R2 that is blocking the request?

• Edited by Cinghiale99 15 hours 43 minutes ago

Ping is blocked by the default settings of the Windows firewall.

Have you enabled Remote Desktop on the VMs?

Remote Desktop is enabled, and File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request -ICMPv4-In)/(Echo Request -ICMPv6-In) are enabled in Inbound/Outbound Rules. I also tried turning off Windows Firewall, but still could not ping the ws 2008r2 VM.

Have you tried simply disabling the firewall completely on the server to do your test?

  There are other ways than ping to tell if a client can see a server.

Hi cinghaale,

Have you tried to ping both with the IP address and the name ?
Please try the following links to resolve this issue .Please check this both the server and the windows 7 machine .

Nobody Can Ping My Computer
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749323%28WS.10%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Best regards

• Edited by MeipoXu 6 hours 13 minutes ago

I can connect to the WS2008R2 VM by IP address from both the physical host and the Win7 VM, and netstat/an shows the WS2008R2 VM is listening on the required port. But I still can't connect via http://server.

Hi Cinghale,

Try to run this "ipconfig /flushdns" as an administrator and then have a check .

Best reagrds

• Edited by MeipoXu 3 hours 46 minutes ago