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Does it have any antivirus firewalls on it ?<br />
If not stop windows firewall service and see if you still have the problem. 
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Does it have any antivirus firewalls on it ?
If not stop windows firewall service and see if you still have the problem.

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I have been running solution for several hours, and the connection between host and guest has not &quot;timed out&quot;. &nbsp;This is exactly what I was looking for.<br />
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Many Thanks.
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I have been running solution for several hours, and the connection between host and guest has not "timed out".  This is exactly what I was looking for.

Many Thanks.

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I am running a Window 7 x64 host with VMWare 7.1.3. &nbsp;I have an XP SP2 x86 guest VM with NAT networking, as well as several Vista SP2 x86 VMs (both NAT and bridged). &nbsp;My problem is that the XP guest will not recognize the host's share areas, or at least not all the time. &nbsp;It will communicate for a while if the host has been recently rebooted -- then stops. &nbsp;None of the Vista VMs has this problem. &nbsp;I know that later versions of Windows are suspicious of XP, and getting them to talk can be a bear, but they *are* talking -- just not persistently. &nbsp;Any ideas on how to make the connection persist?
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I am running a Window 7 x64 host with VMWare 7.1.3.  I have an XP SP2 x86 guest VM with NAT networking, as well as several Vista SP2 x86 VMs (both NAT and bridged).  My problem is that the XP guest will not recognize the host's share areas, or at least not all the time.  It will communicate for a while if the host has been recently rebooted -- then stops.  None of the Vista VMs has this problem.  I know that later versions of Windows are suspicious of XP, and getting them to talk can be a bear, but they *are* talking -- just not persistently.  Any ideas on how to make the connection persist?

Getting XP Guest to communicate with Windows 7 host

The Windows operating systems have distinct methodologies for designing and implementing networks, and have specific systems to accomplish various networking processes, such as Exchange for email, Sharepoint for shared files and programs, and IIS for delivery of web pages. Microsoft also produces server technologies for networked database use, security and virtualization.

Windows Networking

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.