Good news: Vista thinks it's in a private network (instead of a "public" network, which is Vista's way of saying "I think you are in a coffeehouse or airport"), and that "Inbound connections that do not have an exception are blocked." If all inbound connections were blocked, we would not be able to do any file sharing. I clicked on the link, and here's what I got. (If I were using a third-party firewall, I would have to go configure it separately.) Notice also that there's a link in the lower left corner for "Windows Firewall." I happen to be using Windows Firewall on this virtual machine I'm not using, for example, the firewall that Symantec sells as part of its security suite. I might have had to turn that on, depending on how this Vista instance had been previously configured. Notice that it says that file sharing is on. Then I clicked the button for "Network and Sharing Center." Here's what that looks like. Notice that file sharing is off by default.
First, I clicked on the little Windows logo at the lower left corner of the screen, which takes the place of previous Windows versions' Start menu, and opened the Network panel. I just fired up my own Vista virtual machine and took some screenshots. OK, bridged mode is definitely the way to go if you want your Mac to be able to browse file shares in your virtual machine.
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