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Guests cannot access LAN when Bridged Networking is enabled

I'm hoping someone can help me becuase I'm having a heck of a time getting bridge networking set up on Workstation 6.5. I recently got a new laptop and copied my VMs over from my old laptop to my new laptop. The one VM that I had up and running (windows XP SP2) worked fine with bridging on my old laptop (On VMWare Workstation 6.1), and will not work on my new laptop (Workstation 6.5). Both the new and old Laptops are Vista Enterprise 32bit. I don't have any third party firewall software installed on the new laptop, only the built in Windows and I have disabled that. I've tried changing the hardware compatibility back to 6.0, no luck. I am 100% positive my IP address settings are correct on the guest machines since they haven't changed.

If I change the vNIC to a NAT connection, it works fine. It seems only the bridged connection does not work. I've verified that the VMWare Briged Network Service is enabled on my Host NIC I've even removed it from the NIC and installed it again, no luck. I've pasted my VMX file below. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

.encoding = "windows-1252"

config.version = "8"

virtualHW.version = "7"

vcpu.hotadd = "TRUE"

maxvcpus = "4"

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"

memsize = "652"

mem.hotadd = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"

scsi0:0.fileName = "Windows Server 2008.vmdk"

ide1:0.present = "TRUE"

ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect"

ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

floppy0.fileType = "device"

floppy0.fileName = ""

floppy0.clientDevice = "FALSE"

ethernet0.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"

ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"

ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"

usb.present = "TRUE"

ehci.present = "TRUE"

sound.present = "TRUE"

sound.fileName = "-1"

sound.autodetect = "TRUE"

mks.enable3d = "TRUE"

pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge4.functions = "8"

pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge5.functions = "8"

pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge6.functions = "8"

pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"

pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"

pciBridge7.functions = "8"

vmci0.present = "TRUE"

roamingVM.exitBehavior = "go"

displayName = "Windows Server 2008"

guestOS = "longhorn"

nvram = "Windows Server 2008.nvram"

virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"

ft.secondary0.enabled = "TRUE"

tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"

extendedConfigFile = "Windows Server 2008.vmxf"

ethernet0.addressType = "generated"

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

uuid.location = "56 4d 81 24 b6 e8 63 ba-d1 df 9c 94 01 2a 07 80"

uuid.bios = "56 4d 81 24 b6 e8 63 ba-d1 df 9c 94 01 2a 07 80"

scsi0:0.redo = ""

vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"

pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"

pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"

pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"

pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"

pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"

scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "160"

usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"

ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"

sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"

ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35"

vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36"

scsi0.sasWWID = "50 05 05 66 ec 48 d4 50"

usb:0.present = "TRUE"

usb:1.present = "TRUE"

ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:2a:07:80"

ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

vmci0.id = "19531648"

usb:1.deviceType = "hub"

usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"

floppy0.autodetect = "TRUE"

ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"

ide1:0.startConnected = "TRUE"

ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "TRUE"

floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"

policy.vm.mvmtid = "52 71 5e ef ff d5 1a 4f-d7 97 72 d7 cb fb 3f 6e"

policy.vm.managedVMTemplate = "FALSE"

policy.vm.managedVM = "FALSE"

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asatoran
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If I change the vNIC to a NAT connection, it works fine. It seems only the bridged connection does not work. I've verified that the VMWare Briged Network Service is enabled on my Host NIC

Does your new laptop have built-in Wi-Fi? And is your laptop connected to the LAN using Wi-Fi or wired ethernet? If you're connected to the LAN using Wi-Fi, then it's possible that Workstation is autobridging to the wired NIC. Run the Virtual Network Editor to make sure that you're bridging to the correct NIC.

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