Help set up a network access between multiple Virtual Machines

[vziera]

I'm new to VMware and trying to figure out how to make a network connection between two VMs so I can access all the drives in each of the VMs from each of the VMs using full CMD commands like eg:
ping each other's IP sucessfully, manipulate files on each other's drives, detecting each other's port, etc.

Help! thanks up front!

 

[Alabalcho]

Did you check VMWare documentation?

 

[david_brent]

Are you using VMware Player? If so, there are two types of network configuration available for your purposes:

Bridged networking - A virtual machine is connected to a network by using the network adapter on the host system.
NAT networking - A virtual machine does not have its own IP address on the external network. Instead, a separate private network is set up on the host system and a virtual machine gets an IP address on this private network from the virtual DHCP server.

I would recommend using bridged networking. Just select Bridged as the network type in your network adapter configuration. See here:

Add a virtual network adapter

Of course, you will need to configure your guest operating systems installed inside virtual machines to use IP addresses from the same subnet.