Can not ping or access guest from host - vmware

Question

I have win7 OS with vmware workstation with debian 7. This is the ipconfig of host(win 7)

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.47.235.94
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0

I am connected by NAT (I could not manage to do bridged connection). ifconfig of the guest is this

But pinging guest from host by ip 192.168.252.138 gives Request timed out. If I enable some network adapter from win7 network conenctions, say VMnet1, accordingly these lines appear in win7 ipconfig

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::4561:18cc:8abc:93a2%15
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.71.1
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

and I can ping host from guest by 192.168.71.1, but again can not ping guest from host(this is what I need).

I do not have any firewall rules in guest: /sbin/iptables -L shows no rules.

I am able to create custom virtual network and connect guest to it setting static ip address, in that case I can connect from host to guest, but the problem is I can not connect to the internet from guest.

thanks

Answer 1

instead of vmnet1 I had to enable VMware Network Adapter VMnet8, doing so it added the following to the host's config

Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::28e4:a65d:b520:ad92%16
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.252.1
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

after this I was able to ping the guest from host. The connection type between host and guest is nat.

update

if it is already enabled, disabling and re-enabling might help (thanks Paul G)