Quote Originally Posted by sweetlemon69
Isn't DNS a major part of AD? And when u say obtain automatically from DNS, I'm assuming you mean DHCP?

So you're having problems authenticating on a machine when u use a DHCP obtained address and no problems when u use a static? I'm assuming you're using the static address of the A record you have in DNS for it? Are you using DDNS (VM updates DNS when it gets an address? Check ur tcp/ip settings).
What exactly should I be checking in the TCP/IP settings? I've tried leaving everything automatic, providing the gateway and DNS and DNS backup servers, etc.

What is DDNS? I'm more of a VMWare guy and not a network admin guy.