I've recently started playing with Kali on VMWare Player and Metasploitable 2 on VmWare Player. Both are on the same (default install) subnet. Metasploitable 2 has 2 adapters: settings:NAT and Host only, while Kali has only NAT.
If I run Nmap from Kali outside MSFConsole I get open ports:
root@kali:~# nmap -p0-65535 192.168.233.129
Starting Nmap 7.00 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2015-11-21 11:41 EST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.233.129
Host is up (0.00011s latency).
Not shown: 65506 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
23/tcp open telnet
25/tcp open smtp
53/tcp open domain
80/tcp open http
111/tcp open rpcbind
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
512/tcp open exec
513/tcp open login
514/tcp open shell
1099/tcp open rmiregistry
1524/tcp open ingreslock
2049/tcp open nfs
2121/tcp open ccproxy-ftp
3306/tcp open mysql
3632/tcp open distccd
5432/tcp open postgresql
5900/tcp open vnc
6000/tcp open X11
6667/tcp open irc
6697/tcp open unknown
8009/tcp open ajp13
8180/tcp open unknown
8787/tcp open unknown
40319/tcp open unknown
44229/tcp open unknown
52677/tcp open unknown
55486/tcp open unknown
MAC Address: 00:0C:29:FA:DD:2A (VMware)
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.92 seconds
When I run db_nmap within MSFConsole I get all ports are filtered:
msf > db_nmap -p 1-4000 192.160.233.129
[*] Nmap: Starting Nmap 7.00 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2015-11-21 11:42 EST
[*] Nmap: Nmap scan report for 192.160.233.129
[*] Nmap: Host is up (0.00089s latency).
[*] Nmap: All 4000 scanned ports on 192.160.233.129 are filtered
[*] Nmap: Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 97.35 seconds
Before running these commands today I did:
apt-get clean && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
Yesterday, (I did an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
) I was getting the same Nmap results, but all ports closed on the Metasploitable VM.