Not sure if anyone has seen this before, but I'll give it a shot.
I am running VMWare Server 1.0.1 build 29996 on Vista Business with all the current MS Critical Patches. On my host os, a PING to the IP of the first VM fails, as does all other traffic (DNS queries, WWW, etc). All 4 other VM's work correctly.
After some troubleshooting, all other VM's and my two other non-VM machines access the first VM fine. What seems to occur is on my Host OS the first VM "inherits" the MAC address of the default gateway rather than the MAC that shows up in IPCONFIG -ALL on the VM (and on the other non-host OS machines).
Out of desperation, is set the MAC address in the VM adapter within the first VM to no avail. The odd part is that if I shut down the first VM, the HOST OS (Vista) then shows the correct MAC address.
Anybody have any thoughts on this? I have even tried the Staples "Easy" button, but that didn't help either... 