Hi,
I'm working on getting more acquainted with VMWare and the SUSE SLES OS, so I've downloaded and created a guest running SLES 11 SP1. This works great, no problems. However, there's some funny-ness (is that a word?) when I'm attempting/testing to SSH from outside my local LAN into the guest.
Let my sum up my setup:
The VMWare server
- Is a Windows 7 with LAN-ip 192.168.1.66 (static).
- The guest is running with a bridged configuration, not NAT.
- Windows Firewall has been disabled in an attempt to get some data in the SUSE firewall logs.
Another PC in my LAN
- Is also a Windows 7 with LAN-ip 192.168.1.65 (also static).
- Connects just fine to the VMWare guest on 192.168.1.77 (see next section).
- Has Windows Firewall running fine (also attempted to disable)
The SLES guest
- Is configured with LAN-ip 192.168.1.77 (also static, obviously).
- SSH port has been changed from 22 -> 1337.
- The SUSE firewall allows SSH from 192.168.1.0/24 to make it accessible from my LAN area (this is going to be narrowed down later, just to please the security minded people
)
- The SUSE firewall DOES NOT allow SSH from outside the LAN, but should be allowed on a IP-by-IP basis.
External Linux Debian VPS
I have an external Linux Debian VPS solution. When I ssh to my WAN IP from this, and supplying port 1337, it just eventually times out, clearly indicating something's amiss somewhere in my configuration.
My ISP-provided router setup
- Portforwards port 1337 to 192.168.1.77
So, what I'm pondering about is what I can try to get the traffic actually arriving at my guest. I have read alot about running the guest in NAT configuration and then using the VMWare tools to portforward port X to the VMWare's assigned IP address.
I am not really very experienced in networking (which is why I'd really like to avoid a NAT solution until I get a hold of stuff), but I have the idea that if I without further ado can access my VMWare guest from my local LAN just by providing the statically assigned IP, I would figure that I'd get it off just by portforwarding the assigned SSH port directly to my guest's IP?
I hope that I have provided sufficient information but if not I shall happily provide additional details as necessary. I hope that you might be able to push me in the right direction