How to connect to my local website from VM enviroment?

first of all, you should get the Ip address from both your vm linux and win7
if you are using bridged network,  they 0must be different but in the same ip range.
you can access the website by entering your win7's ip addres.
if the website is not at root level, add "\sitename" after the ip address

i haven't set a name to the website,  but i have set an IP address. I have the website in my inetpub folder.  I got the linux side to connect to internet with "start wicd" command.

How can I get the information your looking for to see the site in linux? The linux OS im running is backtrack 4 in VM. Im fairly new to linux.

Linux shows this with ifconfig

inet:172.22.50.46


My website url is http://172.22.51.45

Not working, what should I change?

What are the subnet masks on both machines ?

Are they on the same logical lan eg 255.255.0.0 ?

Can you ping from the Linux machine to the Windows box ?

Is the 172.22.51.45 address the address of the Windows box ?

I changed my set up to NAT in network settings of VM.  

>>What are the subnet masks on both machines ?
>>Are they on the same logical lan eg 255.255.0.0 ?

VM (Linux) Mask is 255.255.0.0
Laptop (Windows 7) Mask is 255.255.255.0

>>Can you ping from the Linux machine to the Windows box ?
Im able to ping 172.22.51.45 which is my laptops ip here in this network.

VM gives the Linux enviroment 172.22.50.46

Hi,

You probably want VM to set the network your Linux machine is on, as bridged - then the virtual machine will appear as if it is on your real network. If something on your LAN gives out DHCP then your Linux environment should get given a real IP address.

At the moment its on a virtual network, and can access your physical LAN by being NAT'd behind your physical machine. Inbound connections to your Linux environment won't work as your PC probably won't pass the connection to the VM.

having just re-read your original post - you said you originally had bridged. so my above comment not to relevent. When on Bridged did the Linux machine get an IP address automatically ?

Did you get internet access with either Bridged or NAT ?

I think the problem is that the NAT network on the VM has a clashing subnet with your real lan. So the Linux machine believes the destination is on the same network, and does not send the traffic to the default gateway.

I would change the IP address range of whichever network you are using on VMware workstation so that it doesn't conflict with your LAN.

Ok,

I move around with my laptop a lot, so there isnt really a set network.  The internet connection did work on both NAT and bridged.  I wanted the Linux environment to be able to access the website created and hosted locally on my laptop (same laptop that has VM Workstation installed and running Linux environment).

I'm trying to achieve this for testing purposes with some security tools I want to demo from Linux environment any where I go.