You got me! 
Host: Windows 7 professional
VMware player version 4.0.3 build-703057
Guest: Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
Bridged
Apache Tomcat 6.0.36 Server
Disabled firewalls
allow ICMP Echo Requests haven't played with that
I was able to get connected by enabling VMware Network Adapter VMnet1 and VMware Network Adapter VMnet8 connections on host and using Host Only with firewalls disabled.
Thanks for your concern.