I have a small lab and our local GIS department likes to constantly re-IP our environment. Unfortunately, the means rebuilding the machines when this happens. We have created base OS sessions and this has helped, but I would like to hide these machines behind the NAT environment provided by VMware. So far, I have DNS working and I think I have worked out all the kinks but one:
I have my own active directory domain and this server sits outside the vmware environment. For ease of use of my group, I have predefined alot of policies that I would like to avoid duplicating on each vmware image. Has anyone managed to get this working in their own environment. I do have one confession. In order to get this working as efficiently as possible, the host is running SUSE 10 64 bit(Windows 2003 was a PIG!!!). However, I know enough Linux to do the installs and get vmware up and running. I have tried for the last few days to search these boards and google to find out how to do this, but have not been able to find what I need. Any hellp would be greatly appreciated. Here is my environment:
Active Directory Server(hosted on smaller box outside the vmware configuration. All it really does is host the security for my group).
4 Dell 1425's running SUSE 10 x64. Each box has Dual 250's in RAID 0(I need the disk space for DB projects) and each has 6 GIG of RAM. I have pretty much the full OS install along with compilers. I run KDE on the desktop. I have configured the NAT DHCP server to use a different IP range for eash of the boxes. I have had problems with each NAT having the same range. I caused problems when pulling files from our file servers.
I figure I will probably need to open up some ports, but other than opening up the full range for the AD RPC's(which does not look like fun), I have not been able to determine a simpler way to do this.
Thanks in advance!