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?