I have a win10 host with a debian jessie guest and bridged networking. Host and guest can access everything they should, except they cannot access/ping each other. win10 exports a mount over smb and the linux mounts it and this gives me a shared partition. It has worked in the past. Sometime (maybe a few months ago?) it stopped working. It turns out that host and guest cannot ping each other at all. I also tried a quick new guest and it has the same problem. I also tried the work laptop and host/guest cannot ping each other with bridged networking. And a friend with a winxp guest inside win10 host also cannot ping between each other. This has worked in the past as I used guest accessing host for the shared partition.

Windows 10 Pro version 1607 OS Build 14393.693

VMware® Workstation 12 Player 12.5.1 build-4542065

Is there any magic hoop jumping required now? Or maybe has a small bug crept in and gone unnoticed for a while? I'm thinking I shouldn't have to do anything other than say bridged networking. I've tried reinstalling etc. The fact that at least 3 independent machines exhibit the same issue suggests it's more subtle (or blunt!) than me messing up my home desktop though. Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Borris