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)

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