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What does Windows 7 'Diagnose Network' actually do (as opposed to "just check")? [duplicate]

I have a Linux guest virtual machine under VirtualBox, on Windows 7 Professional, which exports its disk as a Samba share. When I connect to \\SHARENAME after booting, though, while the share does ...
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How do I access local web address in a microsoft virtual machine?

I have downloaded a Windows 8.1 VM from Microsoft's dev center to do local testing for IE11. Host is OSX Guest is Windows 8.1 Using Virtualbox 5.0.12 Host machine /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 www....
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How to add a static route to AirPort Time Capsule?

I am building a virtual lab with VirtualBox to simulate a network with multiple servers, using a single physical host with 32GB of RAM. The host PC is connected to an AirPort Time Capsule for ...
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Linux virtual machines unable to connect to the Internet (Virtual Box)

I'm having difficulties connecting to the Internet from *NIX virtual machines. I have a whonix gateway and workstation, and a kali linux virtual machine running in Sun's Virtual Box. The network ...
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Destination host unreachable using Virtualbox

I just need to be able to call service on client from host and vice versa, unfortunately I just can't make it work. Host: Windows 7 Professional Client: Windows 7 Professional with Guest Additions 4....
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Ubuntu Virtual machine on Win7 has network access but is not able to upgrade or wget

I'm having a bizarre (to me) problem probably related to the way my company's network is set up. I set up my virtual machine the way they suggest here https://askubuntu.com/a/424368 And I am able ...
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DNS not functioning on command line

I recently did a combination of Vagrant + VirtualBox stuff on my machine to try to get a virtualized Ubuntu install working. However, I had no luck with it so I just uninstalled everything. Ever since ...
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Can I tunnel to a host-only device?

I have a tricky routing/tunnelling question, hoping someone can help. My setup is this: On my lan, I have a Ubuntu workstation and a Windows 7 PC. The Windows 7 PC is running Oracle Virtual Box, and ...
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Internal network issues between pfSense and Windows in VirtualBox

I have three virtual machines running on Virtual Box. First one is Linux (pfsense) that's acting as a router with two network adapters one bridged and one set to the internal network. The other two ...
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Routing from VM to internet

I have setup a VM using VirtualBox with Windows 7 as the host. On my homenetwork the VM can connect fine to the internet, without any changes on my side. However, when I'm running the VM when ...
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Cannot connect to the server through host machine that I created in guest machine in Linux Mint

Using virtualbox I am running a server on Linux-Mint(guest) and client machine is windows-8 (host). When I try to connect to the server (which looks like http://169.254.158.126:8080) from windows-8, ...
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VirtualBox XP host on Yosemite fails to connect to Mac share

Upon upgrade to Yosemite, my VirtualBox Windows VMs no longer connect to shares on the host Mac e.g. \\my-mac's-name\folder-name. It seems to see them (in Network Places) and either continually ...
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Get a windows 8 host to access a website hosted in a windows server guest

I am running windows server 2012 as a guest(using Oracle Virtualbox) on a windows 8. I have a website hosted on the guest OS which i can access in a browser inside the guest. I would like to be ...
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Ubuntu IP address from win 8

I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 under Virtualbox on a Win 8 system. The Ubuntu system seems to be fully configured and connected to the internet; I can start a Firefox session from within the Ubuntu VM. I'...
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How to map a local Ubuntu Server in Windows 8.1?

I am currently running Ubuntu Server using Oracle's VirtualBox. I would like to map a network drive to my local Ubuntu Server in Windows 8.1. I can connect to my server using PuTTy just fine. I can ...
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