Revisited: What am I missing? (admin help [still] needed!)

Thanks to those who responded to my previous bleat for help, I have been back to try and get this working but still no luck!

The situation is as follows:

• Domino 7 sever running on RHEL as a guest in VMware
• I can ping from the host both IP address and hostname of the guest
• I can ping the host from the guest
• The Domino server is up and running and I can connect over http and run the Domino web admin
• nmap shows port 1352 as open on the guest
• I have allowed incoming traffic from the guest to the host in my firewall
• the VM has a fixed IP addressed and is running in host-only mode
• I have added the IP address and FQHN for the guest to my host’s “host” file
• I can connect to the guest from the host via SSH and FTP

The continuing problem is that I can’t connect from the Notes or Admin client on the host. I’m not sure whether I made that apparent before. I have tried the following:

• I have a connection document configured for the server.
• I have tried using both a FQHN or the IP address as destination address
• When I try opening a database and enter the server name, I get the error:
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IBM Lotus Notes
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The server is not responding. The server may be down or you may be experiencing network problems. Contact your system administrator if this problem persists.
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OK
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• When I try opening a database and enter the IP address, I get the error:
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IBM Lotus Notes
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Unable to find path to server. To trace this connection, use File - Preferences - User Preferences - Ports - Trace (Notes client) or Trace command (Domino server)
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OK
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To me this makes no sense, and is beyond my networking problem-solving abilities, I feel I can’t see the wood for the trees!

Has anyone else done this? I can’t imagine I’m the only one! So I must be missing something simple, right? Any ideas most welcome!

In the meantime, I going to install a Notes client in another guest VM and try to get them talking.

Wish me luck!