How to connect to a local network

WagnerM · Jan 19, 2010

What I'd like is to be able to access my local network. For instance, on the Mac, if I type: http://localhost/~user/ I can access html or PHP files stored locally being served by Mac OS's apache.

If I type http://localhost or http://localhost/~user it does't work in Parallels' Windows.

Is that possible? If it is, how?

I'm talking about Parallels 5.

Many thanks

I-che · Jan 20, 2010

Hi WagnerM,
in Windows VM, you should add IIS (Internet Information Services) from Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add/Remove Windows Components. Make sure to use Bridged Networking in virtual machine.

WagnerM · Jan 20, 2010

Hi I-che,

Thanks for your reply.

I've downloaded IIS from Microsoft's website as I couldn't find it in control panel>add or remove programs>add/remove windows components. I've set the network as Bridged Airport. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks again.
Wagner