>I have a question in regards to both Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Pro
> in Virtual PC. (I do not know the year of the Virtual PC Console, I am
> using
> it in college for my Networking course.)
>
> In Windows Server 2003, to get out of the Virtual machine, I have to hold
> down the right Alt key to get out of the window, but I don't have to do
> this
> on the Windows XP Pro Virtual machine. Is it because of the settings
> within
> Windows Server 2003? Or is it because the host machine is also an Windows
> XP
> Pro machine, so I don't have to hold down the right Alt key in Windows XP
> Pro
> Virtual machine to get back to the host machine?
>
> Also, two weeks ago when we started setting up the Virtual machnes to
> start
> our own Virtual network between the two Virtual operating systems, on
> Windows
> XP Pro, my domain was "test" while on Windows Server 2003, it was
> "testagain", and it caused a lot of conflict when it came to Windows XP to
> connect to Windows Server 2003. My instructor did fix this for us
> students
> who had this problem (it seemed it occured on my PC, and the one to the
> left
> and right of me, but nobody else in class.) I just want to know, why did
> the
> two OS have different domain names? And why couldn't we do it right from
> a
> workgroup? (I am sorry, I am looking to be an Network Administator
> someday,
> and I am very curios.)
>
> One last thing... the day we started setting up the Virtual machine, we
> had
> been told to write down our IP Addresses after logging on. So I did for
> the
> Windows XP Virtual Machine. (It was a third class IP address... the
> common
> 192.168.*.* IP address.) The next class date, I did ipconfig /all in cmd
> on
> the Windows XP Pro Virtual machine, but I did not have an IP address. (It
> was 0.0.0.0). However, when I went into Windows Server 2003 to set up, I
> had
> an IP address there. (Just a local Third Class IP address - 192.168.*.*.
> We're not connected to the Internet with our Virtual machines, but the
> host
> machine still have an Internet connection.) Both XP Pro and Windows
> Server
> 2003 have an IP address now, (!92.168.*.*) but I am curious to know why XP
> Pro didn't have an IP address, but Windows Server 2003 did.
>
> Thank you for answering my questions for me. I hope I can learn mor from
> your answers.
>
> -A Future Network Administrator in the Making,
> Steffani S.