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Stoic Joker:
You might want to use NAT networking instead of bridged networking. Networking can be fidgety sometimes when working with VMWare or any other virtualization software for that matter.-Shades (June 30, 2014, 11:07 PM)
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Really? Granted I'm not that familiar with VMware as I've always used the MS (Virtual PC/Hyper-V) offering. But for a cursory search it appears that VMware's "bridged networking" is equivalent to Hyper-V's "Shared Virtual Switch", which I've used extensively. Our productions systems have 20 virtual servers running on a virtual switch, some of which have public IPs and some are behind the router's NAT ...(yes, that is two different virtual switched)... and I've never had a problem with any of it.

Now granted this could be a VMware quirk I'm unaware of (I am honestly curious about this), but it seems to me - from a networking standpoint - that having the route to a hosted service double NAT'ed would be much more problematic to maintain.


The error description is not too clear. Are you very sure nothing else is blocking the port(s) required by Owncloud/IIS?-Shades (June 30, 2014, 11:07 PM)
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I was actually headed here myself being that 8080 probably is not allowed by the Windows firewall by default. Also if for some reason they have a port hardcoded somewhere in the code it could be failing to find itself for that functionality. Page refresh and a netstat -n on the server might bring that to light.


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@SuperboyAC - Please keep in mind that anything I say in here going forward will be tainted by my prejudicial assertion that Apache does not belong on Windows. Having spent the last decade as an IIS admin, I just wanted to be fair coming out of the gate in case anyone ends up geting that impression later on in the thread. :D

skwire:
You might want to use NAT networking instead of bridged networking. Networking can be fidgety sometimes when working with VMWare or any other virtualization software for that matter.-Shades (June 30, 2014, 11:07 PM)
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Really? Granted I'm not that familiar with VMware as I've always used the MS (Virtual PC/Hyper-V) offering. But for a cursory search it appears that VMware's "bridged networking" is equivalent to Hyper-V's "Shared Virtual Switch", which I've used extensively.-Stoic Joker (July 01, 2014, 07:06 AM)
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Agreed.  I use VMs extensively as well and ALWAYS choose bridged networking over the NAT options.

40hz:
Nirsoft's CurrPorts utility can also be handy for rooting out port issues.

Grab a copy here

Shades:
When you use another PC to access the host with VMWare guest bridging works best. With the Workstation product so much more is possible than with Player, with regards to networking.  

I recently had to do a test with setting up a Domino/Lotus Notes and that system wouldn't work properly using the Bridged networking features of VirtualBox (my software of choice). But enabling NAT solved that. That made me realize 2 things. First: never, ever (!) use use Domino / Lotus Notes. And second, switching from a networking feature set only took a reboot and would have saved me an hour puzzling why Domino/Lotus Notes couldn't be accessed.

This might be a peculiarity of the VirtualBox software and not even occur in VMWare/Hyper-V. Bridging is the default option to use, I am completely onboard with that, I just wanted to mention that a simple switch between networking features helped me to get Domino / Notes going.

superboyac:
OK, so I'm back to trying this out.  This time I used the owncloud-bitnami pre-packaged vmware file.  So I'm no longer installing it myself on a windows OS, I'm just launching that bitnami server directly.

i still can't get the freaking contacts part of owncloud to work, and it's the only part i'm interested in!  Argh.  If I go to contacts, it says "Server error! Please inform your administrator".  I have no idea what to do.  I had this problem on the windows setup earlier, and I had to do some things with webdav and mysql.  It worked for like a few minutes, then AMPSS stopped being able to start mysql, which is why I'm giving this bitnami a try.  But same issue.

I can't believe how many hours I've spent trying to get control over contact syncing in recent months.  Every single solution for trying to keep your contacts in your control (not on someone's cloud) has proved to be an immense pain in the butt.

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