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 would like to add, that yes. While using the NAT adapter settings in Vmware and turning off windows firewall I was able to ping other guest machines in my test environment.

Sidenote: Best practice would be to implement a hardware firewall in larger environments and turn off windows firewall on the Domain Controller.