As we were trying to understand how to use/implement and work with Sharepoint, few things were unveiled. We almost knew from the beginning that we had to use a Virtual PC environment for our development otherwise use another PC/Server with WIN2003 OS. But, were not sure exactly how to configure it.
When we finally got Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, loaded it up with an image that my friend got from TechEd-2007 with MOSS 2007 , Visual Studio 2005, Sql Server 2005 loaded on it.
All that was well. Now I needed to make my host machine and guest machine talk to each other. By default the Virtual Machine was using the the Shared Network from my local machine and I was able to connect to Internet from VM fine.
However, I could not see the file structure on my virtual machine from my host machine. I researched and found that I needed to install Microsoft Loopback Adapter on my host machine and configure it on my VM as the second network adapter, leaving the default Shared Network adapter as the first one on the VM. As soon as I did this, I could access my virtual machine like below from the Windows Explorer: file://myservername/C$ where myservername is the name of my virtual machine.
I used the following link to configure above:
This may not be the only way to see the Virtual Machine's file structure though and the only reason to install the loopback adapter. Still Learning.......:)
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