Need a little help with joining a domain

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Akersrus
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Joined: 1. Jul 2011, 18:47
Primary OS: MS Windows XP
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Need a little help with joining a domain

Post by Akersrus »

The guest and host are windows XP, The domain controller is SBS 2003.
I am needing to join this Virtual machine to the Domain and am not real sure how to do it.
Could someone help me?
BillG
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Re: Need a little help with joining a domain

Post by BillG »

The simplest method is to use bridged networking so that the vm behaves just like the host (or an other machine on the LAN). The vm will get its network config from DHCP and look like any other domain member to the DC.
Bill
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