VmWare Workstation 12.5.9: how to share folders between VMs?

Hi there
@muchomurka
are those VM's on the SAME physical host.

I can never get a VMWare NAT Guest to connect to the VM's on another (DIFFERENT) physical HOST -- No problem if these VM's are all on the SAME physical host.

With Bridged every machine whether a VM or not is accessible to the network (currently 4 physical machines and 6 VM's)

I'm always willing to learn new things and certainly am no Network guru but I've never got NAT on a VMware system to see every machine on a LAN -- certinly never got "interconnection" of VM's on different physical hosts..

I'm sure I'm doing absolutely nothing wrong. I'm sure there's possibly some messing around with subnets etc -- got no idea with those -- all I know is that "Bridged mode" works straight out of the box --you don't need to define a "physical bridge" for the network.

Would be glad if you could show me how to make it all work ( start with a basic example of 2 physical machines and 4 VM's for a start -- 1 NAS (linux / SAMBA) and 1 Windows Host with 2 VM's on each.

My router uses DHCP BTW as I don't want to assign fixed physical IP's.

If I'm wrong so be it but as I said I've never got this stuff working with VMWare and NAT networking as defined in the VMWare config file (the .vmx file)

Cheers
jimbo

Thanks muchomurka and jimbo45 or your help and discussion; I am not able to understand mostly but will try to share those folders. The VMs are already in the bridge mode in the same host.

Will let you know the results, probably over the weekend.