VMWare AD Question

BillHicksRIP · 10 Jan 2010 at 19:52

Hi. Hopefully someone can help. I've got a test machine running VMWare Workstation 6.5, which has 2 Windows 2003 images. One is configured as a domain controller for the HOME domain, and the other is a member server. I'm using host-only networking, the firewalls are stopped on both, and the hosts files are updated on each so name resolving works from both. DHCP is disabled on the DC. I'm finding that the member keeps timing out whenever I try to logon with a domain account. When I do eventually get on, and check the Administrators group on the member server, I can see that the Domain Admins group has gone and has been replaced with just a SID. Anyone know where I should start looking to troubleshoot?

Any info appreciated.

droyden · 10 Jan 2010 at 21:13

Sounds like they cant see each other, can you ping one from the other?

BillHicksRIP · 10 Jan 2010 at 21:54

Bah. I had the member server's DNS setting as 192.168.1.1 and not the address of the DC. All is well now - thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

droyden · 10 Jan 2010 at 21:55

No problem

IAmATeaf · 11 Jan 2010 at 11:06

Doesn't host only mean that that virtual adapter can only be seen by that host? I tend to use bridged with the real physical or create a virtual VMNet and make sure both machines are set to use that same VMNet.

EDIT: Ignore the above, just seen that you've fixed it