Hi,
But I cannot configure Networking to connect My Host PC (Win XP) with the virtual Linux machine.....
Try the following: Create your virtual machine with host-only networking. Use ipconfig on Windows to check the IP address that vmware has automatically assigned to VMNet1 - say it's 192.168.11.1. When setting up the Linux box make sure you assign the network card a static IP on the same subnet - say 192.168.11.10 and make sure the subnet is set to 255.255.255.0. (I presume the problem you were having was due to this - i.e. mismatching subnets) That's all there is to it - at least it works for me :-) I also tend to put the virtual machine name & IP into my \WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file to allow me to use it by name.
Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org