Internet Lost when running S.L and Win &

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LoriF

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I have set up a static ip on the windows 7 side through network configuration. I have to have both sides have ips of our local network, in order to connect to our domain and use some programs that are just not mac happy. I set the network up as bridged and all works great at first.

Then I get no error messages, but I don't have internet on either side. I have to shut down parelles, turn off my airport and then turn it back on again.

I used chat, but we did a fresh start up of parelles and of course it worked. They had me change my bridged settings to default. About 5 minutes later I lost internet again.
 
Seems that you have assigned the same IP-address for both VM and Mac.. this will not work. The addresses need to be different. May be you need to contact your network administrator
 
I actually set both of them up in dhcp with seperate ip's. What is odd is my set up is exactly the same as the users that I am running into issues with. I ran mine all day yesterday and I didn't drop my internet at all.

So both are set in bridge mode, default adaptor. And I have installed the tools on both of them.
 
Similar internet problem...

If this needs to be in another thread or on it's own let me know and I'll move.

Me:
Mac OS X 10.6.6
with Parallels Desktop6 for Mac, Build 6.0.11994, (Revision 637263; February 17, 2011)
I'm not super savvy, but I can follow instructions well.


My Problem:
I don't know what I fiddled with, but now I can't access the internet via Windows7 interface/Parallels and Firefox via Mac OSX both at the same time.
I can access the internet, somehow, via Windows7 on Parallels, but the MAc Airport signal shows nothing but a "!".
If I shut down the Parallels VM then I monkey around with the airport a little then it will eventually reconnect and I can access the internet via the Mac. I'm used to running in Coherence mode, because I need Windows/IE to run certain programs and websites that are not Mac friendly, but my preferred method for internet browsing is via Firefox on the Mac.
This is a very new problem. I have been able to use both at the same time successfully up til now. I've gone into Mac, System Preferences, Network, and I wouldn't begin to guess how to assign an IP address. I clicked on Renew DHCP Lease hoping that would do it, but it didin't help. Hopefully I didn't make a bigger mess. Any idea what I did to foul things up?
This may or may not be related to my current problem; I happened to allow a nasty browser redirect hijack called mywebsearch in, but I went to http://redshifter.blogspot.com/2009/08/mywebsearch-hijacked-firefox-on-mac.html and found a way to kill it - at least I think it's dead. I know so little about this stuff.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
gaylam said:
I can access the internet, somehow, via Windows7 on Parallels, but the MAc Airport signal shows nothing but a "!".
If I shut down the Parallels VM then I monkey around with the airport a little then it will eventually reconnect and I can access the internet via the Mac.
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Most likely somehow option "Used Host's MAC address for DHCP requests" was turned on. To turn it off, go to the menu "Virtual Machine" -> Configuration -> Hardware -> Network, choose "Airport" and turn off the option. Then switch back to the value you had originally (likely it is Default)
 
It's a miracle!! I have no idea when I made that change, but it seems to be better now. Thank you so much for your help!

-Gayla
 
You might have changed that setting while doing experiments on your system. I got the same mistakes too.
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