Windows Networking between VMware host and guest fails if host is not online.

Pop-up reads:

The network bridge on device VMNET0 is temporarily down because the bridged Ethernet interface is down. The virtual machine may not be able to communicate with the host or with other machines on your network. \[OK]

It seems as if the network accessibility is through the host's external network interface, and if that is down, the VMware guest can't view the host's Windows Networking resources (shares, etc.)

Host can ping and "net view" guest by name (i.e. "net view vmxppro"). Guest can ping by IP address, but not by name (no DNS resolution); in guest "net view" sees nothing. Guest has DHCP address issued by host, according to ipconfig.