Woody,
I admit that I should have chosen a thread about guest -> guest problems instead of host -> guest problems. My apologies for that.
As to my reply being unsophisticated, well it probably was, but sometimes a simple solution is what you need.
And it may not have included long readouts from an ifconfig command, or complicated networking scripts, or instructions on what to do with your NIC, but it did solve the problem for me and it may be just the thing to help someone else and save them lots of hair-ripping hours. So why don't we let my reply stand and both of us just get back to work?
:-) H