I am using VMWare Player with a 2003 server and an XP client. I disabled the vmware dhcp service on host first of all. My server is setup with AD (DNS) and DHCP with that "first time server" option. I boot up my client and my client is assigned the first DHCP address which is good obviously. I can join the domain fine but I was under the impression that I needed to input the DNS address of the server in client or does DHCP handle the identification of the DNS address to the client when it assigns it the IP address?