cannot ping vmware guest on vmware workstation 10

[Prashant_Ag]

hi,

i have two  vm setup on my workstation(10).one is fedora 19 and another is kali.the host machine is windows 8.1.

i am able ping host to both guest,guest to guest,guest to any ip,host to any ip,any ip to host but the thing that i am not able to do is

that i can not ping any of the guest from a different system...kindly reply with proper solution...

thank  you

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

how did you configure the VM's virtual network settings (NAT, Bridged)?

Do you have an AV/Endpoint protection application installed, which may block traffic?

André

[Prashant_Ag]

Thanks for the reply.....

for both the guest i am using NAT interface.

and yes i have installed mcafee on my system but i  dont think it is causing problem since i am able to ping my host machine from different devices.

[a_p_]

One purpose of NAT is to prevent direct access to the VMs. If you want to be able to access the VMs from other systems, you either need to use Bridged networking, or configure port forwarding in the NAT settings.

André

[Prashant_Ag]

when i go for bridged interface....nothing works. i mean even able to ping host to guest...it says destination host unreachable.

and about the NAT port forwarding thing...i dont know about....please help me with it.

thank you

[a_p_]

With Bridged networking you need to be connected to a switch which allows multiple MAC addresses to use the same port, and all the VMs need to use appropriate IP addresses from the physical subnet. Anyway, port forwarding can be configured using the Virtual Network Editor. Select the NAT network and click the "NAT settings..." button. There you can configure port forwarding, i.e. traffic which arrives at a certain port on the host's IP address can be forwarded to a VM's NAT IP address and port.

André