Any success with networking with VMWare ?

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- Remove all netinfo stuff again
- set hostmanager as local with informations from VMWare

  (manager virtual networks) -> network DCHP. copy all information !
- resolv.conf make inside of /etc
- VMware set to use NAT
- reboot

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I just solved the connection problem (after a week struggle with VMware settings) and now am surfing the Internet happily with my OmniWeb 2 web browser, so this post was writtent and sent out of a VMware NextStep 3.3 machine.
I'd like to describe the changes I did to the settings in the NextStep HostManager configuration and some other little issues I experienced, so that everyone who has just installed NextStep 3.3 in VMware to be able to configure their Internet connection and browse the Internet
What I did to connect my NextStep virtual machine via NAT connection is the following:

1. Following the advice from "TjLs...pdf" manual on how to connect the NextStep 3.3 machine to the Internet I created a file "resolv.conf " in /etc (directory). Creating it is easy - you just use edit.app, when "Untitled.rtf" window of the new text document appears you hit "Alt-Shift-R" key configuration to remove .rtf extension and after writing the info in it you save it "/etc/resolv.conf"
The information has to be written in it is JUST:

ㅇ nameserver 192.168.X.2

(where the IP address is the one VMware gives to your NAT and it is permanent and X is the speciffic number VMware assignes to you when you first install VMware software on your host computer and it differs)

After writing this one line in the document Save it writing "/etc/resolv.conf" as a path and name for the file

2. In Host Manager I filled the following configuration :
ㅇ Internet address - 192.168.X.210

(I read in the VMware help - "DHCP conventions for assigning IP address" that the IP range between 192.168.X.128 - 192.168.X.253 is DHCP assigned, which means the ones VMware gives to the guest OS - NextStep 3.3 in our case. tha last number "210" I picked in blind - it turned out a lucky guess)

ㅇ Broadcats Address - 192.168.X.255
ㅇ Netmask - 255.255.255.0
ㅇ Router - 192.168.X.2

(It turned out - after a week of trying, that the router IP in VMware configuration is the one Vmware workstation gives to your NAT as a Gateway IP and it doesn't change, it's permanent)

The name you chose as your Hostname doesn't matter. In my case I believe that it MUST be something inspirational, so I chose "bernerslee"
As you are done with the Host Manager, don't hurry to reboot!

Go to NetInfo Manager.app and do the following:
1. Delete from /machines "localhost" directory with it's information
2. If you had created a directory with "your_new_host" information,

following "TjLs...padf" manual advice - delete it too!!! It IS essential because in some way it messes with the VMware NAT configuration

(Ican't expalin why, but I realised that this manual wasn't written to help you to set NAT connection in a VMware OS but to configure a connection between a real NextStep machine and your router, so part of it is not needed in our case)

So that's it! After rebooting the NextStep OS you've got the Internet!
The first thing I noticed, though was that when trying to reach my mail accounts my OmniWeb 2 failed to do so and wrote that was not able to resolve https'
Anyone know anything about it?

(I hope it's just this browsers issue and changing the browser will do the trick.)

Any hints here welcome!