Ubuntu – Accessing shared folders from Ubuntu (guest OS) in VMware Workstation ACE Edition

You need to set up host-only or NAT networking. If your host is Windows, you can run ipconfig to see the network information of the VMware virtual adapters. One of them will be the host-only adapter and one will be the NAT adapter. Each runs a DHCP server that will provide an IP address to your your VM if it asks for one. Generally, they will be 192.168.xxx.0/24, with "xxx" being a random unused (on the network that your NIC was connected to at the time you installed VMware) network.

It's simple to do, just configure the VM (you can do this while it's running) and change the network adapter from bridged to one of the other two. Then release / renew the IP in the VM and you should have what you need.

Disabling packet filtering on the host firewall allowed DNS queries to resolve properly. I still have trouble accessing the HTTP services beyond the login page of our intranet but that would be a different issue I imagine.