VMware with Vista Host - Ubuntu guest can't connect.
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What kind of network connection does your vm use? Vmware Server (don't know about other versions) gives you four choices: Bridged, NAT, host-only, or custom. I find that switching from Bridged to NAT or vice versa usually works.
You haven't specified which VMWare. I have VMWare Workstation running here in my Linux box, hosting both Windows and other Linux distros, and networking works flawlessly. I set nothing up, just answered the questions when the vmware config utility (vmware_config.pl) was deploying the installation. It configured samba for an internal guest to host connection, and bridged the whole thing so that my guest operating systems talk fully transparently on my LAN and on the Internet.
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