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Hi MatrixLuginsland,

I am not fimiliar with the MacBook or VMware Fusion but maybe I can offer some observations.

Similarly Windows 2003 DHCP server got Ip address from routers When i make ipconifg/all in 2003 it will shows following details

192.168.2.114

Subnet 255.255.255.0 ,

Default Gateway 192.168.2.1 ,

DHCP Server:-192.168.2.1

, Dns Server 192.168.2.1

I am assuming that the Windows 2003 DHCP is your Active Directory Domain Controller vm to which you wish the WinXP vm to join as a member of the domain. The AD domain controller should point to itself since it is acting as the DNS, DHCP and Domain Controller for a domain. The configuration you have now, will allow for Internet access through your router. Your router has DHCP service on in order to give the IP address to the AD domain controller 192.168.2.114 and then route to the Internet through the router gateway 192.168.2.1.

Simillary in Xp

192.168.2.115

Subnet 255.255.255.0 ,

Default Gateway 192.168.2.1 ,

DHCP Server:-192.168.2.1

, Dns Server 192.168.2.1

Your WinXP also as recieved it's ip address ( 192.168.2.115 ) from the router ( 192.168.2.1 ) so when you try the join the WinXP client vm to the Windows 2003 domain vm, the WinXP vm is pointing to the gateway of the router instead of gateway to the domain controller.

You will must likely have to add a second virtual nic to both your vms and configure them for a different subnet. Use one virtual nic for Internet access to the vms and use one virtual nic for the domain subnet.

You can use a 10.X.X.X subnet for your Windows domain. So for example configure the second nic on the domain controller like so:

IP - 10.1.1.1

Subnet - 255.255.255.0

Gateway - 10.1.1.1

DNS - 10.1.1.1

Your workstation should have an ip in the domain controller subnet such as:

IP - 10.1.1.10

Subnet - 255.255.255.0

Gateway - 10.1.1.1

DNS - 10.1.1.1

I would configure a static ip for the workstation and not use dhcp on the domain controller unless you want to work with the dhcp aspect of windows 2003 server.

Hope this helps

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