Networking Tips Tricks

If you had installed VMware server the way I did, you most likely encountered an error when going to the console tab and try to install the OS on the virtual machine. the error reads “ Error opening the remote virtual machine 8333\16 the host name could not be resolved”

Today we will setup a virtual machine in VMware console to host our Windows Server 2003 for our testing network domain controller. Once you’re logged in on your VMware server console, you should be able to see the following screen: On your left hand top corner click on  Create Virtual Machines,  and the following window should pop up: Choose a descriptive name for your virtual machine, in our case is “Windows Server 2003″ leave the Datastore as [standard] and click next.

today we will install windows server 2003 in that virtual machine to setup our domain controller in our testing network. Once you login to the VMware server console, you should be able to see the virtual machine in the right top corner Click on the “Windows Server 2003″ virtual machine, and then click on the console tab:

How to setup a testing network using VMware server-VMware server installation In old days you had to setup a bunch of computers and a server to emulate a network environment, now you can do the same thing with just a couple of computers using VMware . In this post I will show you how to setup VMware server to host windows server 2003 which is going to act as our domain controller server, and probably a virtual workstation in our testing network. If you don’t own a copy of windows server 2003 and are too broke to buy one, remember there are many ways to get it online for free.  Starting the network process setup is very simple, you just need to download and install the VMware server which we are going to use to setup our windows 2003 domain controller and a virtual PC. You can install the VMware server on any windows machine, including windows XP home and PRO edition, is not recommended and supported by VMware, but for our testing purposes it should be fine. ...