Accessing asp. net development server external to VM

Question

Guys, been knocking my head against the desk (instead of the mac) for hours. I'm running VS 2008 in a parallels VM. I can access the development server in the VM if local host is used, if I use the designated ip for the VM or try to access it externally it does not work. All firewalls are off and I verified that I can access iis externally.

Any Ideas what could be wrong?

Answer 1

I ran into this same problem and am using a TCP tunnel to bypass it. Download this Java app & just tunnel the traffic back. No messing with IIS necessary!

http://jcbserver.uwaterloo.ca/cs436/software/tgui/tcpTunnelGUI.shtml

In command prompt, you'd then run the java app like this... Let's assume you want external access on port 80 and your standard debug environment runs on port 1088...

java -jar tunnel.jar 80 localhost 1088