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Jan 18, 2009 at 04:20 PM

Content Server on Virtual Machine with VPN

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Hello everybody.

I want to create a test-environment with a Content Server. Regarding to the needed Operating System I decided to use VMware Workstation to virtualize the OS and the Content Server.

Host-OS: Windows XP Professional

Host-IP: 192.17.1.151, Port 1090, not used

Guest: Windows 2000 Server

Guest-IP: 192.168.159.128, Port 1090

Goal: The goal is to log in into the company-network, and connect to the local, virtual Content Server from the central SAP-System.

Network:

With VMware it is possible to use different types of network connections. I decided for NAT. With this it is used to share to host´s IP-Adress.

Furthermore it is possible to create a Port Forwarding so that requests defined ports of the Host are forwarded to the guest/VM. For this I created the following port forwarding in VMware:

1090 = 192.168.159.128:1090

Tests:

Now, I tried if it is possible to reach the port.

1. Command on VM: telnet 192.168.159.128 1090 => Port available

2. Command on Host: telnet 192.168.159.128 1090 => Port not available (That´s okay)

3. Command on Hostt: telnet 192.17.1.151 1090 => Port available

Result:

When I am using CSADMIN to connect to IP 192.17.1.151 port 1090 there is the following error message: "Error in HTTP Access: IF_HTTP_CLIENT->RECEIVE 1 ICM_HTTP_CONNECTION_FAILED"

Test 2:

I created port forwardings for the following ports: 80, 8000, 8080, 1095, 3200, 3300. Still the same error message.

Test 3:

I tried to use the Content Server directly in the Network without VPN. The Content Server works correctly, but this is not an alternative to the VPN-Connection.

Question:

From VMware-Side everything looks okay. I already discussed this with different specialist from a VMware Forum. But now I need to know, why it is not possible to connect to the Conntent Server. Port is available but it is not possible to connect to the Content Server. Have I forgotten something?