I have blogged about the exact steps taken to solve this problem here: blog.holsee.
CREATING A DOMAIN IN VMWARE WORKSTATION FOR MY SERVER 2008 INSTALL
Each machine can ping the other machines. Install any third party Hypervisor tools into your Gold image, this can include, VMware Tools, Citrix Xentools or Hyper-V Integration components (Although when using Windows 7 the integration components are built in) The final Stage of creating your base image should be to deploy the Citrix provisioning servicer Target Device client tools. VMware Workstation with each VM using a Birdged Connection (connecting directly to network). Virtual Machine (VM) as a Domain Controller to create a domain which other virtual machines to join.
I will tidy up quesiton when I get the rep to do so. Excuse the insertion of direct links & lack of images, side effect of my account having no rep as yet. (Remember, this is a network of virtual machines which are all able to see/ping each other)Īny help would be greatly appreciated and I can support more info as required, thanks. This seems to be a common issue to newb domain admins such as myself. That is the IP of the router, not the virtual machine with the domain controller & DNS. One or more of the following zones do not include delegation to its child
The DNS SRV records required to locate a AD DC for the domain are not _ldap._tcp.dc._.UK Common causes of this error include the I recieve the error: Error Message Window
When I try to connect to the Domain like so via the Computer Name/Domain Change window (/qru6d/full) , I followed this guide to creating a domain controller: /rtfb/9/build-a-windows-server-2008-r2-domain-controller/ I need to create a development environment which consists of: (I dont believe this is the right newsgroup to post my question to, because its dealing with the Core version of Windows. For networking I chose Host-only in VMWare Workstation and installed Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. First off I am a developer, and I a moving into the realm of distributed computing. Axel Dahmen PS: Ive installed Windows Server 2008 R2 in a VMWare environment.