Setting up VM lab....stuck on something easy...

So i'm just now setting up my VM lab while I wait for my MS press books to come in to start studying. This is my first time ever messing with servers besides remoting in to restart services etc so it's all semi-new to me.
I have a server 2003 R2 machine setup as my DC, all i've done so far is install DCHP/DNS/AD and created a test domain
I have a server 2008 R2 machine setup that i've done nothing to but join to the domain, I will run ADPREP on my 2003 machine later and also make this machine a DC
I have a Windows 7 machine running that's added to the domain
My issue is that for some reason I can't ping between machines by either IP address or name. When I ping by name it will resolve the IP address that's assigned to the machine... but I get a request has timed out response. I know this is something simple but i'm not sure why i'm unable to ping other machines on the domain, DNS appears to be correct since it's resolving the name... does it have something to do with my VM's running a bridged NAT connection?
I have a server 2003 R2 machine setup as my DC, all i've done so far is install DCHP/DNS/AD and created a test domain
I have a server 2008 R2 machine setup that i've done nothing to but join to the domain, I will run ADPREP on my 2003 machine later and also make this machine a DC
I have a Windows 7 machine running that's added to the domain
My issue is that for some reason I can't ping between machines by either IP address or name. When I ping by name it will resolve the IP address that's assigned to the machine... but I get a request has timed out response. I know this is something simple but i'm not sure why i'm unable to ping other machines on the domain, DNS appears to be correct since it's resolving the name... does it have something to do with my VM's running a bridged NAT connection?
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I would also suggest setting up the virtual network in a isolated environment first, not with bridged NAT settings.
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yeah try putting the network adapter in bridged mode and also if it still doesnt work on both servers from a elevated prompt type:
netsh firewall set icmpsettings 8 enable
it should do the trick see how you go.