Help required setting up home lab for 70-290 on vmware workstation 8

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I have started doing my 70-290 and installed vmware workstation 8 to try and set up a network to mimic a corporate domain.

I have installed server01 and elevated it to domain controller and server02 i have just installed as a bog standard server.

They can both ping themselves fine and access the internet but server01 can ping server02, but server02 cannot ping server01.

They are both on vmnet0(auto-bridging).

How should i have this set up properly or am I just missing somthing stupid?

Thanks

 

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If you are using Windows Server 2008 R2 (Maybe other versions also?) it automatically disallows (Firewall) to be Pinged.

Go to

Control Panel
System and Security
Windows Firewall
Advance Settings (On the left)
Inbound/Outbound Rules
File and Print Sharing (Echo request - ICMPv4-in)
Right Click - Enable Rule

Just realised that 70-290 is Server 2003!

Control Panel
Windows Firewall
Advanced
ICMP - Settings
Tick the Allow Incoming Echo request

 

Thanks for the reply.

I managed to get it sorted while at work by turning windows firewall off on both servers. Don't know if it gets turned on while promoting the server to a DC or when upgrading to SP2, but it has done the trick and now I can get going through the exercises again.

 

And also when you join the server to the do domain

 

The next common hurdle is If you've got it bridged dont let your router assign dhcp to your vm's otherwise your DNS enteries will be wrong, make sure you statically assign the IP address and point DNS at your DC.