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I had a problem with opening port between my host (windows 7) and a virtual box (windows xp) system.
On my host win7 system, I added a port from the inbound rule (port 777) under the firewall advance settings' exception tab. I also added the same port under the firewall exception from the virtual box (winxp) system. Now, when I attempted to do this from my host win 7 system:
telnet ip_add_of_winxp_vbox 777
and vice versa (from the virtual box winxp system):
telnet ip_add_of_host_pc 777
I was not able to get connected.
On my host machine (the win7) I had apache (xampp) installed so in my winxp system from the virtual box, I attempted:
telnet ip_add_of_host_pc 80
using port 80, I was able to get a response. But using other ports (port 777 and others), I cannot really connect. Can you help me out of here guys?
PS: I can ping both ways however but just telnet-ting a specific custom created port doesn't work. Both systems were connected on the same gateway.
Aldee
Posted 2013-06-02T03:20:31.177
Reputation: 111
What app are you running on port 777? Just opening a hole in the firewall doesn't open the port on the machine. Go open a cmd prompt and type "netstat -ano | find '777' " and see if it's open. Unless of course you set apache to listen on port 777 – Jason H – 2013-06-02T03:28:16.457
thanks Jason. but it does not actually appeared from the netstat -ano.. I am attempting to open a port for testing on my python program.. any suggestions? – Aldee – 2013-06-02T03:32:10.627
Yeah, if you don't see it when you run the netstat -an command then your python script is failing. regardless of your firewall if it doesn't show up with the netstat command it's not open. Check your python script. – Jason H – 2013-06-02T03:33:21.833
Perhaps you need to open the port in Windows' firewall. Here's some resources.
– martineau – 2013-06-02T08:12:00.660@martineau: thanks but still of no luck.. – Aldee – 2013-06-02T14:04:28.013
Maybe you can solve your networking problem by enabling the logging of packets on the guest or host side.
– martineau – 2013-06-02T15:49:53.880