yavp - Yet another VMware problem

[Probationer]

I've installed OpenSuSE 11.1 as a guest system in a VMWare 6.0 workstation running on Windows XP. I'm using the VMNet0 (bridged network) interface, the guest can ping the host, and the host can ping the guest. I can't connect to guest from the host, telnet to port 25. The firewalls are disabled, I've disabled the default firewall in yast and the XP firewall.

I can connect to port 25 using the exterior address 192.168.240.25 from the guest.

The ip address of the host is: 192.168.240.5
The ip address of the guest is: 192.168.240.25

The interface that I'm bridging is an Intel 3945 wireless card, both the guest and the host can ping a third computer 192.168.240.6

Any thoughts as to where I should be looking to fix this issue would be warmly received.

All the best

[Touchtecservers]

Silly question: But you are sure that the telnet is listening on the appropriate IP address?

[coopstah13]

default port for telnet is 23, not 25, did you specifically set up telnet for port 25?

[Probationer]

Thanks for looking at this, it was irksome.

Telnet/SMTP is operating on the appropriate address. I figured this one out last evening, but couldn't figure out how to post the resolution. McAfee anti-virus on the XP host was preventing the connection.

All the best