Hello,

I have VMware Player installed which created 2 virtual network adapters.
These adapters are seen by Vista as a separate unidentified network from my
wired connection and are tagged as public. No matter how many times I change
it to private, every reboot returns them to public. The problem with this is
that the firewall sees the public network as the active one and uses public
rules which don't allow all the things I want. I suppose I could change all
the public rules to be just like the private ones, but it seems like there
should be some other way out of this and I think I might want public rules
for some reason in the future. How do I get Vista to see these adapters as
either part of my wired network, or as part of a different private network?
I looked at merging the networks when I changed the settings to private from
public, but Vista wouldn't allow it. Or, how do I get Vista to see my real
private network as the active network instead of the virtual network? Why
doesn't my designation of the network as private stick?

Thanks.

hi all,

i too am suffering from the same network problem, but in my situation
one machine is accesing the internet through proxy, where the proxy
server is my PC (ccproxy). if i set the local area connection to auto
config IP, from time to time it changes my ip and i cannot get a fixed
ip to set it on the other machines as proxy ip. but if i set my ip
manually my network changes to public everytime i reboot, and i have to
change it back to private to allow file sharing, also the network falls
into a group called unindentified networks where hamachi and a nother
network conenction created by the modem lies and they work like a group,
every changed i do i have to do it for the whole group...., pls help!

i want my local area connection to be on private using a static IP
everytime i reboot & how do i seperate it from the others.

thanks in advance


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