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finsfree
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Running Server 2012 Domain Controller from within VMware Workstation 11

I'm trying to setup a lab at home to practice with Server 2012 AD DC and VMware Workstation 11.

This is the BIG question. Can you run Server 2012 AD DC within VMware Workstation and add physical computers to the domain that are out side of VMware Workstation? I have setup Server 2012 network adapter to use "Bridged", but I'm still having issues adding computers to the domain. I get a message saying "network path not found". The only role I added to the server is AD DC and DNS (not DHCP because the router already does this).

I can ping the virtual server from the computer that I want to add to the domain.

Thanks so much, 

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rcporto
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The physical computer that you're trying add to your virtual DC is with DNS configuration pointing to the IP address of your DC ? If not, you should do this otherwise your physical computers will have problems to find the DC and authenticate.

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TomHowarth
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Have you reconfigured your DHCP to issue out to your clients the new DNS address?  can your clients PING the DC by name? both NetBIOS and FDQN

This is a DNS issue not a VMware issue,  verify that the DNS has correctly registers the SRV records

see these Microsoft articles

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/a2a3fefd-9db1-4576-965b-7e41b2f1ba15...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/285182

Tom Howarth VCP / VCAP / vExpert
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Contributing author on VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing ESX and the Virtual Environment
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finsfree
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I did that.

Here are my DNS settings for that physical computer:

  • Primary 192.168.1.254 (which is my AT&T 2WIRE240 router that does both DHCP and DNS)
  • Secondary 192.168.1.86 (which is my virtual DNS server)

On my physical computer that I'm trying to connect, I can ping the virtual server and I can ping the name "server02" just fine. I get as far as typing in my admin username and password then it sits there and thinks and comes back with a message "network path on found".

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finsfree
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Also, I cannot change what the DHCP spits out as far as any DNS IP addresses in this AT&T 2WIRE240 router. I can change the IP range to start and end at.

Is there any way around this? I don't want to rely on the virtual server do DHCP as well because like I said this is just for testing purposes.

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