I have a virtual (vmware player) on which i have two small RHEL 6.7 servers and two win7pro 64 bit guest nodes running.
#virt. host issue: accessible remotely but difficulty joining domain.
The virtual host itself uses static IP and it is accessible. It is using win 7 pro 64 bit, as its host and runs the vmplayer on it. (Adding to domain is unsuccessful; in workgroup, the DC server can see this virt. host but virt. host could not reach it-Firewalls off)
#virtual guest nodes unreachable via ping/tracert
-I have 2 rhel 6.7 nodes X86 (64 bit) and two win 7 pro 64 bit are inaccessible either via dhcp or static IP (but would like to have static IP assigned so they could be reached w/o needing to land on the virtual host) but ping and tracert both fail as unreachable.
-default dhcp has network connection as work and has internet access, static IP assigned network connection as public and no internet
-Firewalls on virt. host, virt. nodes, my laptop are manually turned off.
- The guest nodes either static or dhcp assigned IP don't work even if i add them to my client laptops hosts file (windows>system32>drivers>etc>hosts) 'host unreachable'
-Static IP method used on other machines (independent of virt. host & virt. guest nodes) and they are reachable.
-Static IP that i am using are available.
-all nodes have complete hosts entries in their hosts file also. (windows>system32>drivers>etc>hosts) & /etc/hosts on rhel nodes.
#example:
independent node 10.20.18.130 reachable ping + tracert
virtual host node 10.20.18.132 reachable ping+tracert
virtual guest nodes 10.20.18.124 & 10.18.20.125 are not 'host unreachable'
I am out of ideas ...
any suggestion is deeply appreciated. I would rate myself as novice networking person but have no qualm reading up.
Thank you for your time in advance