Turns out it was my antivirus, Bitdefender Internet Security 2013, that was blocking the VM's connection.
To fix it I needed to set the network adapter VMware Player was bridging to as Trusted and Stealth mode off.
Turns out it was my antivirus, Bitdefender Internet Security 2013, that was blocking the VM's connection.
To fix it I needed to set the network adapter VMware Player was bridging to as Trusted and Stealth mode off.