Hi,
First of all, my apologies if I've accidentially posted this in the wrong forumgroup, this is my first post here. I have been trying to search for a solution to my problem but I haven't managed to crack it yet.
I have created my first virtual machine (I'm new to VMWare, so it's a learning curve, please bear with me) and installed OpenSUSE 64 bit. This went fine without any significant problems (at least for a novice). I installed it and it works. End of my trouble? Not quite 
It seems that I cannot SSH to the virtual machine. I can easily go online from it, resolve DNS etc and I can also ping the virtual machine from my local network (both from the VMWare server computer and from other computers on the same network). When I attempt to SSH to the virtual machine, it simply times out (I'm using SecureCRT as the weapon of choice).
The VMWare server host is running Windows 7 (ultimate).
A popular advice was to disable my NIC's "Checksum Offload".
This is the output of "ifconfig -a" and the eth0 interface looks fine (seemingly):
cigva:~ # ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:BA:01:1E
inet addr:192.168.1.69 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feba:11e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:612 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:133 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:69784 (68.1 Kb) TX bytes:17128 (16.7 Kb)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:580 (580.0 b) TX bytes:580 (580.0 b)
Again, I have no problem reaching the world (or pinging the network, 192.168.1.x) from the virtual machine and I do not have problems pinging the virtual machine from my network, so I am a bit baffed as to why the SSH times out. Both the VMWare server computer and the second computer in my network is running Windows 7 Ultimate.
At one point I considered whether the SSH request went via WAN instead of LAN (could've been a matter of portforwarding in the router then) but I kinda strayed from it again after trying to trace it, where it didn't jump from LAN to WAN (experienced network guys: feel free to have a laugh at my expense if I totally mess up here? 
) - anyways, I did create a portforward from port 22 to the virtual machines IP, 192.168.1.69 just in case. Besides disabling Checksum Offload on two computers (including the host computer), I also tried to disable (Windows) firewall on both computers.
Another recurring suggestion was to issue
ethtool -K eth0 sg off rx off tx off tso off
I was unsure whether this was to be issued if the VMWare server was running Linux, but I gave it a shot as well, which didn't do anything. I stopped and restarted the /etc/init.d/network service (which didn't help either) but produced the following output (no errors, at least):
cigva:~ # /etc/init.d/network stop
Shutting down network interfaces:
eth0 device: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
eth0 done
Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . done
cigva:~ # /etc/init.d/network start
Hint: you may set mandatory devices in /etc/sysconfig/network/config
Setting up network interfaces:
eth0 device: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
eth0 Starting DHCP4+DHCP6 client. . . . . . . .
eth0 IP address: 192.168.1.69/24
eth0 DHCP6 continues in background
eth0 done
Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . done
SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 ...
SuSEfirewall2: batch committing...
SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set
I hope that you can perhaps straighten me out on this matter. I'd appreciate any suggestions on this! If you need any additional information, I will happily add it.
Best regards,
Klaus