Shared Networking not Working! No Internet

[shawnp]

This has been painful. My internet connection on the Guest Windows side stopped working. I was using Parallels 4. I reinstalled Tools, to no avail. I rebooted tons of times, both Mac and VM. I even went back to a Snap Shot and it worked at first. Then after VM reboot, the internet stopped. I assumed it was product bug so I went so far as updating to Parallels Desktop 5. Yeah same problem remained!

I have read all the threads and tried what I think is everything:
* Attempted to uninstall the Network Device on Guest OS - the VM does not like this. It typically fails.
* Re-created a network adaptor from the Parallels Configuration. Does nothing.
* Hard coded and went with DHCP on Mac Network side for the Parallels Guest Ethernet Adaptor #0.
* I even SAFE-MODED it and remove all network devices. When reboot it works until next boot.

By not working I mean the Network device shows the Parallel Ethernet Adaptor. The networking control panel shows the "enabled" adaptor connector to a local area connection. The status is connected. But zero packets are move in or out. And if you click repair - it fails immediately saying no TCP/IP connection. >ipconfig /all returns nothing.

I would not be surprised if there is something on Mac side I need to tweak, but I don't know where to start.

I am running 10.5.8 with Parallels 5 for Windows XP.

 

[Elric]

This has been painful. My internet connection on the Guest Windows side stopped working. I was using Parallels 4. I reinstalled Tools, to no avail. I rebooted tons of times, both Mac and VM. I even went back to a Snap Shot and it worked at first. Then after VM reboot, the internet stopped. I assumed it was product bug so I went so far as updating to Parallels Desktop 5. Yeah same problem remained!

I have read all the threads and tried what I think is everything:
* Attempted to uninstall the Network Device on Guest OS - the VM does not like this. It typically fails.
* Re-created a network adaptor from the Parallels Configuration. Does nothing.
* Hard coded and went with DHCP on Mac Network side for the Parallels Guest Ethernet Adaptor #0.
* I even SAFE-MODED it and remove all network devices. When reboot it works until next boot.

By not working I mean the Network device shows the Parallel Ethernet Adaptor. The networking control panel shows the "enabled" adaptor connector to a local area connection. The status is connected. But zero packets are move in or out. And if you click repair - it fails immediately saying no TCP/IP connection. >ipconfig /all returns nothing.

I would not be surprised if there is something on Mac side I need to tweak, but I don't know where to start.

I am running 10.5.8 with Parallels 5 for Windows XP.

It may be WindowsXP problem, try to reset TCP/IP:

To do it, please open Command Prompt in Windows (Start > Run.. > type 'cmd' > OK)

And enter following command:

netsh winsock reset

Restart Windows and use next command:

netsh int ip reset reset.log

Restart Windows once again.

 

[shawnp]

This worked! You are a God-send. Thank you and everyone should be aware of this.
I spent an entire weekend day fooling with this and it was that easy.
All Hail - the Parallels Forum / Team!

It may be WindowsXP problem, try to reset TCP/IP:

 

[shawnp]

This worked wonderfully. Thank you so much for that advice.

 

[Elric]

Glad to hear that issue is solved -)

 

[ShahryarR]

what about certain subdomains? is that a virus or something? for certain sites, a subdomain works while another doesn't. But they all work fine on the host Mac OS X. Anyway to fix that? or do I just have to delete and make a new parallel image?