I amn new to vmware server. Got it installed, and created a few vm's. Each vm has it's own static ip address in bridged mode.
We can connect to the server to browser shared folders, install programs, get online etc. All seemed great. We can ping the server with ip or wins names.
We created a few mapped drives like we have on the non virtual machines, and that worked great.Our goal was to run Quickbooks on these virtual machines. We have an older version that doesnt work with W7, and we are not buying new qb licenses just to get the never version.
Now to what doesnt work;
We mapped the qb folder as usual, and qb even loads, for a minute. Then it gets disconnected. Sometimes it works for 30 seconds, sometimes 3 seconds.
We have another program that run from the server. When it loads it gets the "Error performing inpage operation" and it doesnt even start. This program isnt insyalled on the vm, it just liked to the exe on the server.
This same setup works fine as a regular workstation. We made a copy of a working workstation that is this vm.
We looked into wins, dns, and mtu issues. All look fine. MTU was 1472 + 28 to get us back to 1500. The server MTU is 1500 and i read somewhere the vm should match the host.
This vm is running as a guest on the host server where the network shares are. The trafic doesnt have to go far. No firewall on this server, and no firewall on the vm.