Hostname not resolving to local IP address

Question

I am running a Windows 8 VM inside of vmware Fusion. It runs inside a Mac running OSX 10.10 (Yosemite). The VM has a computer name of \"Proud\". When I ping the VM from within i

Answer 1

First, test and check with IP_address typed for ping from OSX 10.10 <host> terminal, so as to be independent of any DNS-service, that is responsible for a hostname translation of your <hostname> to a pre-configured IP_adress

Second, You say bridged -- thus check, that the VM has the very same network-part of the IP_address ( boundary is given by non-zero bits in subnet-mask

Check details with ifconfig resp. ipconfig

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VM/w8  connected to VMnet? has IP_address := 192.168.0.??? subnet ???.???.???.???
RM/OSX connected to VMnet? has IP_address := 192.168.0.??? subnet ???.???.???.???

EDIT#12014-08-20 15:30 [UTC+0000]:

-------------------------?-----------------------------???--------255.255.255.0
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Best to post PrintScreens from {OSX|w8} terminals {ping|ipconfig|ifconfig} and the setup of VMnet