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Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

Peter — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:18:27 -0000

I completed the first two tutorials but get stuck on this one. When I try to set the static dns ip address to 192.168.0.10 I get "The configured DNS server is incorrect or does not exist."
Any ideas where I went wrong?
Thanks!

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 2

Peter — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:22:29 -0000

I'm not sure if I missed something along the way, but after this step "Create a new domain in a new forest and press Next," I had to open another cmd prompt "as administrator" and type "net use administrator P@ssw0rd /passwordreq:yes" to go to the next step.

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 1

Adam Jones — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:08:59 -0000

Hi Hank! This is true. Deploying host-only network is designed to isolate the virtual infrastructure away from potential harm to the real physical environment. In the case of the tutorials, it’s to isolate, just in case, but does mean the environment is inaccessible.
To grant access to the lab environment, you will require another virtual machine to function as a router with an interface plugged into the host-only network and an interface bridged to a real physical network. By deploying a router/firewall solution, it’s possible to filter the traffic and control access to the internal lab environment eg. Remote Desktop inbound only or even a VPN solution.
I can’t stress enough how important it is to be careful about this deployment option as you may expose your production network to unwanted/harmful traffic, so do this carefully.
Hope this helps and thanks for reading!

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 1

hank — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:02:52 -0000

I was informed by our network admin that by using Host only network connection that I would not be able to reach the test VMware domain from other computers on our network. That only other VMware clients created on that same computer would be able to reach or join the domain. Can you explain?

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

Adam Jones — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:18:12 -0000

I would check for cached credentials on the Windows client. Most of what you describe looks like the AD credentials being used to authenticate the user when the Active Directory is not available.

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

zishan — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:19:01 -0000

Hey Adam here is something that I would like to bring to your notice may be you could figure out if I was going wrong somewhere. When I pinged my server from client it pinged properly.not only that when i joined the client computer to the domain I saw my client PC appearing in AD of server machine ( users and computer ).This leaves me an impression that there is no doubt that Client very well found the DC.But here is something very funny going on.When i log in to my client with administrator log in or a user defined in DC it logs into it even when the server machine is shut.if I change the DNS to something else lets say 192.168.0.25 in client which is not the IP of server (198.168.0.10 given in your tutorial) even then it logs into the server.One more thing.I had created a user which worked fine for sometime I mean I am testing so was trying different options.I realized that even when the user is disabled in AD yet client is able to Log in with that user credentials.Here is the surprise i Even deleted the user from active directory yet it logs into the machine. I wonder how come when the domain control is shut or the DNS address is changed in the client or when the user is disabled or deleted then why or from where the my client ( xp VM ) is able to log in.Is is VM ware fault or some twiking is required.Kindly suggest and reply back.I would like to thank you once again for such a simplified post which gave me a kick start to networking.will wait for your reply

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

Adam — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:53:12 -0000

I'm glad you got so much out of them. From this point, the sky's the limit as to where to go ... exchange, SQL, the possibilities are endless!

Re: [TUTORIAL] Windows 2008 testing environment using Vmware Player part 3

zeeshan — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:18:05 -0000

This is just Awsome.Extremly helpfull and user friendly.You arejusta dude.