Changing from Shared to Bridged Ethernet without shutting down windows

[srini15574]

hi,
i have a macbook pro on which i run a whole lot of software. I frequently have to swap my mac between the office domain, the home wireless network and also without a network (host only). I need to therefore swap between bridged and shared ethernet connections due to some requirements on the apps that i run on my mac.

Everytime, i need to shutdown my windows to change from Shared to Bridged Ethernet...

Is there a trick to do this without quitting my windows? That would be a great help as i can save a good 15 mins on every restart.

My specs:
Parallels Desktop for Mac Build 5638
Mac OS 10.5.7
Windows XP SP2

thank you very much.

 

[Ken Cunningham]

I switch back and forth all the time using the "Devices" menu ("Network Adapter 1" option) without rebooting Windows. It always seems to work fine.

 

[Elric]

hi,
i have a macbook pro on which i run a whole lot of software. I frequently have to swap my mac between the office domain, the home wireless network and also without a network (host only). I need to therefore swap between bridged and shared ethernet connections due to some requirements on the apps that i run on my mac.

For Parallels Desktop 3.0 you need to either restart the VM or click Start -> Run -> cmd.exe and type in appeared window two commands

ipconfig /release
and then
ipconfig /renew

note: The Parallels Desktop 4.0 does all necessary actions automatically.

 

[srini15574]

i even try flushing the dns and then renewing the ip address but does not work.
there seems to be something that activates my DNS server and gets a fresh IP only after i shutdown, switch from shared t o bridged...
so this does not work for me as i need two different IPs - one for my mac and another for my PC both from my DNS server