Parallels Interfering with my OSX network

[Parallels User]

Hi there,

I'm just in the stages of trialling parallels and it seems great so far but I have run into a bit of a showstopper problem. Just seems that when I have Paralells running in the background, I loose the ability to connect to some networks.

For example I try to connect to another machine with smb://machine_name and it wont appear until i shut down parallels.

Any ideas?

Thanks Pete

 

[Elric]

please start /Application/Utilities/Terminal, execute in it command "ifconfig -a" and post either here or to me via forum's private message the output of this command

 

[Parallels User]

Hi there Eric,
Thanks for taking a look at this, I sent you the details. See if you can figure it out!
Pete.

 

[Elric]

Most likely you are using Bridged-mode of networking and somehow option "Send Host's MAC address for DHCP requests" was turned on in Parallels VM. To turn it off, shutdown Windows and go to the menu "Virtual Machine" -> Configuration -> Hardware -> Network, choose "Airport" and turn off the option.

If internet in VM will not work without this option, then you need switch to the SharedNetworking.

 

[Parallels User]

THanks Elric,
That seems to have fixed it. Slowly getting my head around this VM buisness!