The following is my IP setup for the Host:
Note that the 192.168.1.4 is a static address that I have assigned to my laptops NIC. and my wireless is currently disabled. As can be seen here the two vmnet adapters are not in the same range but the FAQ's said not to touch these default nics. I tried to put them on the same subnet but that did not sem to work VMware said that I already had the subet assigned to a different network. I expand upon this later.
The following is the IP config from my Virtual Classroom DC.
The network settings for the Classroom DC shown above is set to host only.
The Settings for the Student Server are set as follows:
This is how it stands right now:
I assigned both VM's a static address in the network and sharing center in Windows, they are in the same subnet, but they still cannot talk to each other. That is I cannot add the student server to the domain. I Can ping from the Student server (192.168.1.251 to the Server DC 192.168.1.250) but not from the Server DC to the Student server. I was able to do this only by switching both NIC's when you are in the VMware workstation environment (bottom right corner)to Host Only. Do I have to change something in the network editor? The network Editor says that the two VMnet's that are used are VMnet1 and VMnet8 but according to what I have read at the VMWare workstation community they say not to modify these defaults in the FAQ's. The way my home network is set up is that all PC's get their IP from a home router except for my laptop which has been reserved statically in my router. My laptop is hosting the virtual Lab Servers.The way the lab is supposed to work is The student server is supposed to get its IP from the DHCP of the virtual Classroom DC. I made a small scope of 192.168.1.250-254.
This is what I found from the FAQ forums in the Q&A
Q: Is it a good idea to modify the default settings of vmnet1 or vmnet8?
A: No.
I don't seem to be having any success getting these two machines to work. Also see my o=attachment on the original message. See the attachment in my original message that shows what I have tried to do so far. Is there any correlation between the VMnet's 1 and 8 that my host sees and the actual settings specified in in the NIC card IP properties specified in Windows? I would thing if it was changed in the windows properties it would change it in the VMware network editor properties. Also, How do you tell which VMnet network adapter(vmnet1 and vmnet 😎 is associated with each virtual machine. I see the network adapter for each VM when I am in the network adapters for each VM but I cannot tell which one is associated with VMbet1 and which on is associated with VMnet8.
I missed on part of my IP config in the previous screenshot for the host, I cut off vmnet8
For some reason it Did not hold my IP configureation. I doulbe checked it and set it to static 192.168.1.4 255.255.255.0 192..168.1.1 (gateway) I was able to Join the Domain with the Student Server I got the authentication box an d when I see the Server that joined the domain in AD>the domain name I used was "MYLASTNAME".local.When I sign into the DC the logon shows"MYLASTNAME"\Administrator which is what I expected to see. I named my student server Server1 and when I log into it it says "Server1\Administrator to me that is the local PC account. So I said log on as a different user it says I am going to log on to Domain:"MYLASTNAME" but if I log off and log back on it coemes up as "mylastname\Administrator and I can get to shared folders on the DC. This tells me that I am logging into the domain. I was just expecting the domain to be listed in CAPS as the DC shows. Is this possibly just a setting in the server.
I still cannot hwever Ping from the DC 192.168.1.250 to the student server 192.168.1.251
I set my DNS to point to 192.168.1.1 on the DC and on the student server to point to the DC (192.168.1.250) for DNS. and I am able to get to and the latter which is a website I have not been to on the VM's However I Get errors in DNS (first pic) the serve fqdn toggles between trying to resolve, to, unable to resolve.
I am not sure if this matters because I seem to be able to resolve external adresses.
I went to to configure the forwarding lookup address per the following instructions:
* To configure a DNS server to use forwarders using the Windows interface * |
Open DNS Manager.
In the console tree, click the applicable DNS server.*
Where?
*
DNS/Applicable DNS server
On the Action menu, click Properties.
On the Forwarders tab, under DNS domain, click a domain name.
Under Selected domain's forwarder IP address list, type the IP address of a forwarder, and then click Add.
I did not see under the forwarders tab DNS domain and an option that said domain name (step 4) or Selected domains forarder IP address list and add (step 5)
I am assuming that what they are referring to is the following whichwas already added in.
I have a couple more comments that I will make later. Thanks again for everyones help so far.
I should clarify, when I said that I pointed my DNS server to 192.168.1.1 I was refering to forwarding the DNS server which it did automatically ( I did not make any changes to the forwardingas shown in the screenshot in the previous post).. You previously said that I could point my DNS to point to my loopback in the following reply:
"What is not O.K. is your DNS setup.
For the DC if it is also a DNS server:
127.0.0.1 for the DNS is on the same machine is O.K. but you have to configure a DNS forwarding address in the virtual DNS server pointing to your hosts DNS server. Otherwise the virtual DC/DNS server doesn't know how to handle requests that asks for other domains than the one itself knows about ("www.vmware.com" for example).
If the student PC should be member of the domain it should point to 192.168.1.250 as its DNS server. It can resolve other domains as soon as the DNS forwarding is configured on that DNS server.
The default gateway should be 192.168.1.1 on all systems"
My DC is a DNS and I currently have 127.0.0.1 configured as the DNS server.
Should it be changed to 192.168.1.250 (the server address) as you stated in your previous reply?
I tried turning off both firewalls and still could not ping from the DC to the student server
How did you screen scrape some of the various comments i made and put it in as part of your previous reply? I could not figure it out being new to the boards and all. Again thanks for your help.