Also, put out of your mind that we are talking about VMWARE in any way. What I will say is it is a “virtual machine” type application that the host communicates with through TUN/TAP.
Everything between the host and the virtual machine works perfect, I can FTP, I can TELNET, I can PING, I can see all of the virtual machines TCPIP ports from the host.
But I cannot see the virtual machine from any other machine on the same network as the host.
For Win2K it sounds like you have to use Internet Connection Sharing(ICS). However, when you use ICS, the IP address of TAP will be forced to 192.168.0.1. If a router in a real network uses 192.168.0.1 as its Host ID, the network will be unuseable; instead configure the router to use 192.168.1.1 and specify 192.168.1.x for the network.
Then right-click on a real network adapter and select property. Select sharing and check to use ICS. Then push OK. The IP address of Tap adapter will now be set to 192.168.0.1