Calling all VMware ninja's....help!... for

[<moLe>]

Ok, so busy setting up a windows 03 server on an Ubuntu 9.04 VMware workstation virtual machine. And as expected the installation went down without a hitch, joined it to the domain, downloaded updates from the WSUS all without a glitch.
That was until I tried communicating to it from one of the other machines, I then realised I wasnt able to even ping it from the host machine.
The part about this I dont understand is why I can ping all the other machines from the vm machice, but they cant ping the vm machine? I bridged the connection so cant see why I cant get two way communication going?

 

[Conradl]

Firewall?

 

[<moLe>]

nope, switched the firewall of. And its got me quite bummed, at first thought it was vmware's virtual network driver, but then I loaded a different VM and the coms was great.

 

[Conradl]

Had this a while ago too. Are you using DHCP? Try configure the network to host only and use a static address. See what happens. You can also try attach the 2003 vDisk to a new VM and see if the network functions; rules out a VMconfig problem.

 

[<moLe>]

Had this a while ago too. Are you using DHCP? Try configure the network to host only and use a static address. See what happens. You can also try attach the 2003 vDisk to a new VM and see if the network functions; rules out a VMconfig problem.

no, dont use dhcp on virtual machines. And, yes tried connecting it to another machine,and it did the same eliminating the host as a potential suspect...and seriously I love the riddles posed by problem solving but this ones getting to me, it almost appears as though the VM machine is not on the look out for incoming transmissions. Guess it's time for me to look at the network layer for issues:erm: