Joining a machine to an Active Directory Domain across a Hamachi 2 VPN
OK. This is extremely geeky. I put this here just so others who might want to try this can find it. It is possible to join a machine to an Active Directory Domain across a Hamachi 2 VPN. A little bit of trickery is required, but it's actually pretty low-impact. The first step is to make sure that the machine you'd like to join to the domain is a member of the same Hamachi network as the domain controller and that it can see the DC. Ping std.hamachi.logmein.com to get the IP address of the Hamachi intermediation server (I get 64.94.18.75) . On the machine that is joining the domain, set the Local Connection DNS setting to the Hamachi IP address of your domain controller. Now go into the Hamachi 2 client on the machine being joined to the domain. Go to Preferences, Settings, Advanced settings, Server connections, Server address and hardcode the IP address of the Hamachi intermediation server there. Hamachi should then be able to resolve and reconnect to the network. At this point, you can go ahead and join the machine to the domain. The thing to keep in mind is if you ever lose the Hamachi network connection between these machines, check to see if the IP address of std.hamachi.logmein.com has changed and change that setting in Hamachi appropriately.
posted by Corgi, Dr. of Ursinity, Prattling Pasha of Positivity at 7/23/2010 08:12:00 PM
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Is this assuming you've installed Hamachi on the Domain Controller? What if Hamachi is installed on a different server than the domain controller?
Yes. The DC has to be in the same Hamachi network as the machine you wish to join to the DC. I recently had some problems with this procedure with Server 2008 R2. I need to do some more testing but I haven't gotten around to it.
Gave it a try. Still can't contact DC. Hamachi resolves.
Any troubleshooting ideas?
I was able to join the domain, I just had to manually input the DNS of the domain on the hamachi network connection.
Logging in after a reboot was tricky tho... I couldn't log in as a network user (Hamachi not running yet?) So I logged in as a local user, then Switched Users, and logged in as a domain user and it worked.
The next login, I was able to log in as the domain user first, but I suspect when the cached login limit is reached, I will need to login local, switch user again to reset it.
I assumed hamachi ran as a local system service? Maybe give it a few minutes before logging in .. give time for hamachi to start up and connect the domain services. maybe?
Interesting post and thanks for sharing. Some things in here I have not thought about
before.Thanks for making such a cool post which is really very well written.
will be referring a lot of friends about this.Keep blogging.
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I had to disable IPv6 on the client machine for this to work on a connection between a Server 2008 Domain controller and Windows 8 Pro Client.
Hi find that the option to make a gateway network has the best results,
i setup 2 x server 2008 rdp virtual machines with vmware, i can connect them 2 each other no problem and even join 1 of them to a domain in another city, or another vm on the same PC.
my problem comes during dc promo on the 2nd server , it gets to about 90% complete then it says "RPC server unavailable"
can you provide any assistance on how i can fix this its very important to me
thanks in advance
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When you hard coded the ip to the hamachi client preferences settings on the machine to be joined to the domain, must you also use the same ip for the DC as well?
It's been a long time since I last did this, but no it was not necessary to change any settings on the DC. Setting the client Primary DNS server to the Hamachi address of the DC allows the client to find the DC when it tries to join the domain. The change in the Hamachi settings allows the client to find the Hamachi intermediation server so it can establish a Hamachi connection. I haven't tried it, but you might be able to accomplish the same thing by setting Secondary DNS server on the client to 8.8.8.8 or some other public DNS server.
I All,
I really want to try this but need to understand more.
Which card are we configuring ? is it the hamachi virtual ethernet adaptor or any physical adaptor on the machine we are configuring?
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