can't ping guest machine

Hello,

I'm a new vmware user, I'm running vmware player version 3.0.0 build-197124 on windows xp

I've created a new VM and installed Centos v5.0 on it,

I'm using NAT as the network connection type.

for some reason I cannot ping the guest machine from my host, can someone help me?

this is what I get when I run ifconfig on my guest machine:

 

$ ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:76:C1:EA 

          inet addr:192.168.226.130  Bcast:192.168.226.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe76:c1ea/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:94 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:20589 (20.1 KiB)  TX bytes:17322 (16.9 KiB)

          Interrupt:67 Base address:0x2024

 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:2975 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:2975 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:4921805 (4.6 MiB)  TX bytes:4921805 (4.6 MiB)

 

but I cannot ping address 192.168.226.130 from my host machine.

b.t.w I can ping my host machine (192.168.60.22) from the guest machine.