Shared Networking stopped working under XP

Hello,

I'm running Windows XP SP2 as a guest OS under Mac OS 10.5.4. Parallels is Build 5608. I am using Sophos anti-virus on the guest OS.

Shared Networking stopped working today. Could anyone please suggest how to get it connected again? Thank you very much in advance.

 

What ifconfig -a shows
in Terminal from Applications/Utilities

 

Thanks for your help John. To answer your question, the Terminal command displayed:

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::21b:63ff:fea0:7921%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 155.245.61.190 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 155.245.61.255
ether 00:1b:63:a0:79:21
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,flow-control> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control> 1000baseT <full-duplex> 1000baseT <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control> none
fw0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
lladdr 00:1f:f3:ff:fe:32:c3:9a
media: autoselect <full-duplex> status: inactive
supported media: autoselect <full-duplex>
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1b:63:cd:74:d0
media: autoselect (<unknown type>) status: inactive
supported media: autoselect
en2: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:0%en2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
inet 169.254.26.3 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:00
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect
en3: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:1%en3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet 169.254.26.3 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:01
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect

I hope my MAC address isn't shown somewhere between the lines above...

 

try
sudo killall -HUP pvsnatd
in Terminal

 

I've tried your suggested Terminal command and restarted my guest OS, but shared networking in Windows XP is still down. Do I need to reboot Leopard too?

 

Try following:
1, Unplug USB wireless modem , restart Mac OS, and perform command above,
2, If you do not have wireless modem check that DHCP is enable in Parallels Desktop preferences Network
3,Delete all location except Automatic, perform command above

 

Hello. Without trying the three steps you mentioned above, my shared connection started working once again. Perhaps it was due to the Mac OS restart. Thank you again for your help John.