Hey all at EH-net!

I'm new to the forums and I wanted to start off by getting some help with a setup I'm working on.

First off, I'm running a decent desktop for this; stats are below:
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k at 4.1ghz
RAM: 16gb
SSD 120gb (main drive)
2tb Western Digital (Secondary Drive)
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They are basically the useful stats in this instance, it does have a gaming graphics card but that's not relevant here.

What I have:

VMware Workstation 7
1 Team: - Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit)
              - Windows Server 2003 Standard(32bit)
              - Windows XP Professional
              - Windows 2000 Professional
              - Latest Fedora
              - Metasploitable
              - Damn Vulnerable Linux 1.5

They are all running on 1 segmented LAN, with the 2008 server using 2 virtual NIC - 1 for NAT to my current physical LAN, 1 to the segmented LAN. The rest are all assigned to the segmented LAN.

Now Ideally I want the 2008 Server to run as a Domain Controller with DHCP and DNS to organise the rest into 1 working domain.

Functionality is that I want them to be running services for different things, but also I want to be able to access the other workstations/servers from the physical side of the 2008 server, which is the existing lan. I have backtrack set up on a laptop and I want to be able to use it. So I'm asking if I can do that without having to add another VM running backtrack so I'll already be within the domain. I'm not so much looking for 100% realism but having multiple platforms to use for testing would be nice, but also being able to map out the network and use domain names and subdomain names, actually having it a working LAN under the main DC controller.

The part I'm stuck on is setting up the DHCP and DNS services, I've assigned a static IP for the NIC that connects to the physical network on the NAT Vmnet, but I'm being advised that the Segmented LAN connection requires a static IP for the DHCP and DNS to work properly, I understand why but I cant get this to really work.

Does anyone have any links, process on setting up this type of network, even if its just setting up one domain controller on VMware and having to connect another workstation to it to give it internet access.

Sorry for the long post, I just want to get this set up!

Thanks for the read.

N_OP