New to Parallels - and no internet of course..

[codylee270]

Hello everyone,

I just installed parallels today and I couldn't access the internet. So i took to the forums here and noticed pretty much everyone had the same problem. Most of the posts I've seen deal with wireless and airport, but I'm using a cable modem. I am extremely knowledgable in computers except when it comes to networking and IP addresses, etc. So I am clueless as what needs to be done between my iMac's networking settings and WinXp, my guest OS. I certainly hope someone can help since Parallels seems to be working great, but with no internet, and no easy way of getting software to and from my MacHD and the virtual HD, it's rather useless.

Please Help!

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Umm... Yeah - I switched to host-only networking and now I've got internet. Good. Now, how do i get this thing to recognize My usb jump drive. I have it checkmarked in the drop down box when clicking on the USB icon in the lower right-hand corner of the parallels window, I think it tried to load it, but I still don't see it. Any suggestions?

 

[greg1075]

Well, for what my advice is worth, try using a router if you have one handy. When I go through mine the internet works fine in my gues OS (XP) but when I plug my modem right into my iMac I get no working internet connection and a "no a little connectivity" warning. My problem is the other way around. I'm trying to find out whether I can get the internet to work in the guest OS WITHOUT using the router which slows down the connection in both Mac OSX and XP. If that's doable, that means there's another solution to your problem too...

 

[joem]

There's no reason a router needs to slow down a network connection. If you connect to the Internet, you are going through many routers. You probably either have a configuration problem or an old router. I've seen up to ten megabits per sec over my cable conection with a router that includes an SPI firewall that looks at every packet. The fact that you have a router isn't the problem.