Networking problems

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by AMCMO, Sep 8, 2008.

  1. AMCMO

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    Have Leopard running just fine, can connect to my Windows network, internet etc.

    Have installed Parallels and that picked up the Boot Camp partition and set up XP Pro SP2.

    All works fine, can see the drive on the Windows VM, Windows VM can see the Mac drive using MacDrive. I can run MS Office 2008 and Entourage connects to our Exchange server

    Here's my problem.

    If I turn on Shared networking, the XP VM cannot see the network and connot get internet connection. If I switch to bridged, then the XP VM gets the network and internet and the Mac loses connection. I've not made any changes to the settings at all, just the defaults that came with the installation, apart from setting the domain etc in the Mac networking control. Once Bridged is turnd on I need to unistall Parallells to be able to switch back to shared.

    In both Shared and Brideged I've not entered anything in the Parallels network setup for the VM
     
  2. John@Parallels

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    post here the output from ifconfig -a from Terminal in Applications/Utilities
     
  3. AMCMO

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    rr10:~ robertr$
    rr10:~ robertr$ ifconfig -a
    lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
    gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
    stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
    en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    inet6 fe80::21d:7dff:fe04:da76%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
    inet 192.168.1.163 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
    ether 00:1d:7d:04:da:76
    media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
    supported media: 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,flow-control> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control> 1000baseT <full-duplex> 1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control> autoselect
    fw0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2030
    lladdr 00:0d:de:a3:00:00:1d:7d
    media: autoselect <full-duplex> status: inactive
    supported media: autoselect <full-duplex>
    en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:0%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
    inet 169.254.8.218 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
    ether 00:1c:42:00:00:00
    media: autoselect status: active
    supported media: autoselect
    en2: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:1%en2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
    inet 169.254.8.218 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
    ether 00:1c:42:00:00:01
    media: autoselect status: active
    supported media: autoselect
     
  4. AMCMO

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    Just one more comment.

    I think I would prefer to use Bridge mode, then the XP is available to the network as a separate machine to the Mac.
     
  5. AMCMO

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    Just noticed one thing in the file. The machine is referred to as RR10. That is the Windows computer name on the network. The Mac name is RR10Mac

    Don't know if that's important, would expect so for bridged.
     
  6. AMCMO

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    Anyone any thoughts?

    Any thoughts???
     
  7. John@Parallels

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    in Terminal from Applications/Utilities on Mac OS
    sudo killall -HUP pvsnatd
    recheck ifconfig again, also make sure that DHCP is enabled for Parallels Interfaces from Parallels Desktop - Preferences - Network
     
  8. AMCMO

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    Thanks John,

    Will that also work If I try Bridged networking as I believe I want the Mac and XP 'machines' to appear onthe network separately.

    Cheers
     
  9. John@Parallels

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    No, it is not related to Bridged Ethernet mode, in Bridged Ethernet, other software may block connection, like antivirus or third party firewall
     
  10. AMCMO

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    If we select bridged mode the Windows VM has network access and the Mac access fails.
     
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