Hi All,
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2, x64 and 3 clients set up in VMWare and this is in a local domain in the VMWare itself.
What happened was that the Windows Server was set up with a DHCP server to assign each of the clients IP when they join the domain. So the clients were joined to the domain [ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew commands were run] but they never received the IP from the Windows Server, instead they received the address from the VMWare DHCP server. Then I found out that the first DHCP to receive the request issues the IP, so basically since the VMWare DHCP is the first one to receive the request on boot by the client, I disabled the VMWare DHCP from windows services.msc in host PC.
Now the issue is that when I check the Windows server there are 4 clients, 1 of which is the Host PC so basically after disabling the VMWare DHCP from services.msc even the host PC is fetching address from the Windows Server and NOT from the DHCP built into windows in services.msc.
Can any one explain me why this is happening.
The selected network for hosts and server n VMWare settings is Host-Only. When I change that to custom, I lose the internet on the Host PC itself because then there is no gateway when I checked it.
Host PC is added automatically and get its IP from from the Virtual Server
