I use fixed IPs on my home network, all in the 192.168.1.X range, so was a bit surprised - and concerned - when Teamviewer on a 'connected to' system was reporting a connection from 192.168.216.1. As all machines on the LAN have Teamviewer set to accept only LAN connections, and as 192.168.216.1 did not look like any of my LAN systems, I had to get to the bottom of it.
Running ipconfig /all on the 'connecting' system revealed that 192.168.216.1 was in fact the IP of a VMWare Player virtual Ethernet adapter, so Win 8 was using that rather than the installed Ethernet adapter, address 192.168.1.30.
I'm unsure whether this is a Teamviewer issue, a VMWare issue or a Win 8 one but booting into Win 7, where VMWare Player is also installed, and connecting via Teamviewer to another system on the LAN, the receiving system was correctly reporting the connecting IP as 192.168.1.30. All system are using the same versions of WMWare Player and Teamviewer so I think the finger is probably pointing at Win 8 - but I really ain't sure!
Running ipconfig /all on the 'connecting' system revealed that 192.168.216.1 was in fact the IP of a VMWare Player virtual Ethernet adapter, so Win 8 was using that rather than the installed Ethernet adapter, address 192.168.1.30.
I'm unsure whether this is a Teamviewer issue, a VMWare issue or a Win 8 one but booting into Win 7, where VMWare Player is also installed, and connecting via Teamviewer to another system on the LAN, the receiving system was correctly reporting the connecting IP as 192.168.1.30. All system are using the same versions of WMWare Player and Teamviewer so I think the finger is probably pointing at Win 8 - but I really ain't sure!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo Thinkpad E335
- Antivirus
- Defender