Remote SSH to guest is not working

Hi,

I'm trying to set up remote SSH access to a Linux guest running on a Linux host.

I've enabled the port in vmnet8/nat/nat.conf and sshing to that port from the host works fine.

However, I've noticed that when I ssh in from the outside, the traffic isn't being NATed. Instead it is directly passing the traffic to the guest:22 port.

Of course this results in no return packets because the source IP is the guest's NAT ip.

Does anyone know why outside traffic would not get NATed but traffic from the host would?

iptables is running - do I need to setup a special iptables rule to get the VMWare NAT to work properly?

Thanks.