BTW, I use VMWare also; if you are using a cable/dsl router, then for the ethernet of the guest os - you should use Bridged instead of NAT because I found that vmware nat service has a handle leak when frequent connections are made by/for the guest os. For this guest test os, you can even make things simpler for now by turning off the firewall. Don't forget portforward setup.
If you get the setup/configure all correctly, then I'll list you on the maazios website message board as a Maazter of Your Domain.
