Hello. This might sound trivial, but obviously I'm missing something here... So here's the setup :
I have a Windows 2008 server (Web Edition) ; this server has a network card that's got a public IP address working OK.
I have VMWare 2.0 installed on that server.
Then I have a VM running a Windows 2003 SBS setup. The network card in the VM is using VMWare's NAT. For convenience I have setup Window 2003 to use a manual IP address rather than a DHCP-obtained one, but that makes no difference with regards to the issue.
The problem :
- within the VM, I can ping outside (like ping www.google.com works allright), DNS requests are resolved Ok (as in ping www.google.com works 
) ; querying a DNS on the Internet using nslookup works Ok as well.
- I can not browse outside !? with IE
- I have tried telnetting known working servers on various ports (25, 80, 21, 110...) with no success at all
FWIW, I can also rdp into the Windows 2003 client from anywhere on the Internet, having forwarded the appropriate port in VMWare's NAT configuration.
So far, this sounds like a firewall issue. The thing is, the firewall in the Windows 2003 client is disabled and I tried with the Windows 2008 firewall disabled as well. No luck.
Ideas welcome...
Z.