Unable to ping vmware guest from another vmware guest

Question

I would like to ping one vmware guest from another one. Both are Windows XP and use NAT. I set IP manually for VMnet8 to 192.168.18.1. (no using Obtain IP address automatically). Also I'm not able to ping neither guest1 nor guest2 from host.

I'm using VMWare Player 5.

Host machine (Windows 7):

    Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::dc81:34e2:779d:595d%19
    IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.18.1
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Guest 1:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : localdomain
    IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.18.131
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.18.2

Guest 2:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : localdomain
    IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.18.132
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.18.2

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I just ran into the exact same problem while configuring my server 2008 and windows 7 vm's in VMware workstation 9. what helped is disabling the firewall and running the following command at the windows command prompt

netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable

at that point I was able to ping one VM then both once I performed the command on both. this differnce between our scenarios is I have my VM configured using Bridged connections