I am having trouble to connect from guests (running e.g. Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 to the host (running VMware Workstation on Windows 8) when the network adapter mode chosen for the guest is NAT. Things work fine in bridged mode, but occasionally, e.g. when on a wireless network I can only use NAT mode. In NAT mode the guests *do have* access to the network, e.g. I can browse the web and I can also ping the host from the guests using its name (not only via IP address).But any other attempt to access the host (and specifically all attempts to mount a share on the host on which I typically prepare files that I want to install on the guests) fails.
The error message is:"The network connection could not be found."
Not sure, whether that's relevant here: I have defined all VMware network adapters VMnet[0,1,8] as NDIS_DEVICE_TYPE_ENDPOINT on the host's side to avoid that Windows' firewall interferes here.
And as I said: when I switch to bridged mode, then I can access the host and mount the shares without any problem. But why does this not work any more when I switch to NAT mode? Any idea, what could cause this problem?
M.