What am I doing wrong?

wweboy

I'm running VMWare workstation and I keep running into a problem every time I want to add a new computer to my domain. I'm running a PFSense VMware image on VMnet 5 and has a gateway of 192.168.2.1.

I can't add computers to my domain without having to statically assign both IP and DNS if I don't do either of them the computer can't find the domain controller. I'm studying the 70-640 so we haven't covered DHCP and what not. I'm getting annoyed at having to assign everything as I know this doesn't happen in a real world environment.

What can I do to make it more "real world" like?

Thanks for the help.

willhi1979

wweboy wrote: »

I'm running VMWare workstation and I keep running into a problem every time I want to add a new computer to my domain. I'm running a PFSense VMware image on VMnet 5 and has a gateway of 192.168.2.1.

I can't add computers to my domain without having to statically assign both IP and DNS if I don't do either of them the computer can't find the domain controller. I'm studying the 70-640 so we haven't covered DHCP and what not. I'm getting annoyed at having to assign everything as I know this doesn't happen in a real world environment.

What can I do to make it more "real world" like?

Thanks for the help.

No, there's no way around it unless you use DHCP for the DNS side of things. If you have a DHCP-enabled router on the same subnet that could assign the addresses, but you'd still have to add them to DNS so you can register them.