Francisco Reyes wrote:
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> It is already set to bridged. Will look into VMware then if there isn't 
> a built-in firewall or anything like it.

Did the 'host' OS networking change? There are issues trying to bridge
VM ethernet cards across wifi host adapters as wifi is
not-exactly ethernet.

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> What has me puzzled is that I have not changed the VMware config for the 
> VM and it worked until the crash.

Assuming you have access to the VM console (sounds like) - try
running /usr/sbin/sshd -D -ddd on the server side and ssh -v
on the client side and see if that shows anything obvious..

also maybe check the host firewall?