10.5.2 / XP no network connectivity

[adriantoll]

Hiya

I've been using Parallels for a while now on Leopard, and wasn't having any problems until installing the 10.5.2 update. Now I get the "Limited or no connectivity" message in the guest OS (XP Professional), and I can't connect to the internet using the guest OS.

I tried looking through the forums for an easy fix, but eventually I gave in and totally uninstalled Parallels, including all the guest OSs (I use it for checking websites on PC browsers, so have one for IE6, one for IE7 etc.) and then reinstalled. This worked until I shut down my Mac last night and started it up this morning - and again I can't get any internet connectivity.

This morning I've tried switching between Shared and Host-only networking, and also reinstalling Parallels Tools, to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Adrian.

My setup:
2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro with 8Gb of memory
Mac OS X 10.5.2, including all the latest software updates as of today
Guest OS is Windows XP Professional, including all the latest updates
Parallels 3.0 build 5584 with Parallels Tools installed
2 x 500Gb hard drives
Not using Boot Camp

Edit 1: I've just done an ipconfig in XP, and it's getting an autoconfiguration IP, not showing Connection-specific DNS Suffix, and no Default Gateway - see attached image Picture 2.png

Edit 2: I tried changing from Shared Networking to Bridged Ethernet with the same MAC address as my Mac Pro and although the Mac Pro's network connection dropped, the network worked in the Parallels guest OS. When I shut down XP, the Mac Pro's connection came back. I'm at work, and my network only allows specified MAC addresses, so I guess the Windows XP connection chucked out the Mac Pro connection for some reason. It doesn't solve the problem - I obviously need both connections to work at the same time, but does mean that Parallels *can* work... I presume Shared Networking should shield the Windows XP installation from the network?

P.S. I couldn't search the forum for "10.5.2" - it returned no results. It would be really useful if this search did work, so that can search for answers to issues with specific versions of the host OS rather than just "Leopard" or "Tiger".

 

[cortig]

I just cerated a .command script for my Script menu (making it owned by root) so that I can re-run it every time I need to after a reboot

 

[cortig]

Censored??

I just cerated a .command script for my Script menu (making it owned by root) so that I can re-run it every time I need to after a reboot

I had several posts in this thread and they are all gone except for the one I'm quoting here.
One of them was providing a solution for the problem here (that works quite well for me).
Did I get censored?? No idea why if it is the case, but I sure wonder why my posts have now disappeared from the thread.

What's interesting, is that if I go to the page to submit a new reply, I can see all the old posts that are no longer normally visible in the thread.

If I was censored, I would appreciate to know why. A little warning would have been nice too.

 

[Xenos]

Hello Cortig,

None of your posts have been deleted and I think I can see all of them (7 posts). Are you sure you can not see them? I have never heard of such issues on the forum before.

I also wanted to say thank you for the useful information you post here.

Best regards,
Xenos

 

[cortig]

Hello Cortig,

None of your posts have been deleted and I think I can see all of them (7 posts). Are you sure you can not see them? I have never heard of such issues on the forum before.

I also wanted to say thank you for the useful information you post here.

Best regards,
Xenos

Well that's really really weird. I can't see my other previous posts in te thread. The only ones I see are the latest 2. As I mentioned before, I still see them all when I hit reply, which tells me they are somewhere in the database. I tried searching to and they wouldn't show up...
It's no big deal I guess if I'm the only one who can't see them. After all, I kno what they say ;-)

FYI, I am using the hybrid view and I can't see them either in the threaded tree representation or in the list of posts in this thread.

 

[cortig]

Well I see them in linear mode.....
Hybrid and threaded won't display them for me.
In Threaded and Hybrid, all posts of the thread fit in 2 pages, it requires 3 in linear mode.

 

[-ian]

Thanks cortig

If I run sudo /Library/StartupItems/Parallels/Parallels restart, (and authenticate of course)both Parallels interfaces in the Network prefs immediately go back to Connected*and the problem is gone.

thanks cortig. Of all the suggestions, this one is works everytime for me. As an added bonus, I don't have to restart my Mac to do it.