How do I access the host machine from the guest machine?
On the XP machine, find your IP address by going to the command prompt and typing ipconfig. Try replacing the last number with 1 or 2. For example, if your IP address is 192.168.78.128, use http://192.168.78.1:3000.
- On the XP machine, Start -> Connect To -> Show all connections.
- Double click Local Area Connection.
- Click the Support tab.
- Take the Default Gateway IP
<gateway-ip> and hit http://<gateway-ip>:3000 in your browser.
Gotcha: You must have http:// in the address or IE will give you "The webpage cannot be displayed".
For future visitors: once you've got the IP address figured out, you can add an entry to the Windows hosts file, which is located at C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, to map the IP address to a (virtual) server name. Add a line like this:
192.168.78.1 myrubyapp
Now you can access the site in IE at the address http://myrubyapp:3000
If you use virtual hosts under Apache you'll need this to provide the correct server name.
You can use your host Mac's (or any other Mac on the network) 'local' name:
http://macname.local:3000/
where macname is the network name of your host (or other desired) Mac.