This has taken a long time to get working, for something that is pretty simple. I develop on a Mac, but sometimes I have to work in .NET enviroment. To do this, we just used to work from a development server. But then we started to use subversion, sure we could still work from the sever, but we really should be working from localhost.
The set up I have, is Vmware running Windows XP Professional with, XP Pro IIS admin. I then have the virtual server's home directory pointing at a Vmware shared directory that exists in OS X, using the "A share located on another computer" option in iis manager (something like \\.host\Shared Folders\Sites).
Now enter localhost in a web browser on the Virtual machine, you should see your website.
The Vmware network settings are set to NAT. This allows us to connect to the virtual machine even if the computer isn't connected to a network.
Make sure Windows Firewall is turned off. This was causing a lot of problems.
Ok, now open the command prompt and get your IP address.
Now from OS X, open a browser windows and enter the IP address of the Virtual Windows machine. You should see that same website that you saw from localhost.
Now you should be able to edit files in OS X and see the results instantly in your browser!!
DONE!!
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