Windows 8.1 VM not externally visible with bridged network adapter

[Smalltalk]

I have a very quirky situation with my Windows 8.1 VM. With my older router, other machines on the network including the host, can only see the VM by ip address. The VM is NOT accessible by computer or host name.

Then with a new router, the VM is NOT accessible at all, not by ip address nor by host name. It is a though the VM can NOT be seen by any other machine on the LAN. The VM and still access the LAN and the WAN.

I've tried different network settings, that is different bridged network settings, and even shared. I want to avoid shared networking if at all possible. My understanding is that bridged networking makes the VM a full citizen on a LAN, but this is not working that way for me.

I can't go back to the older router, because it constantly drops my internet connection.

Any ideas? Insight?

 

[AlekseyM]

Bridged does exactly what you are saying. A couple of things, make sure the machine itself doesn't have windows firewall turned on that could prevent it from being seen. Also, name resolving is not very good on most routers (especially if you are trying to reach it from a mac. Windows is ok).

But otherwise no reason it should not work. Do an ipconfig command on the machine and does the ip address look right or does it look something like 169.233.233, etc (high numbers). If so, chances are it's self-assigned or set to host only or shared network.