Thanks a.p.
As this is VMWare player there is no "Virtual Network Editor" that I can see, perhaps thats in VMWare Workstation.. or did you mean in the Windows 7 host?
Can you suggest how else I might "check whether a virtual NAT network adapter has been created on the host (VMnet8 on the host)"?
Should NAT work offline? My understanding was that it needed a wireless/internet connection?
thanks again
Tony