Hi All, I recently got a Macbook Pro and sadly still have to run windows in order to connect to the network at work. I use Sonic Wall VPN client. To purchase parallels would be cheaper than VPN tracker so I will go down this route. I would like to just run windows in the background with a very small install of XP or 2000 and share the VPN connection to the MAC OS. On searching many articles they point to this page on this site: http://kb.parallels.com/en/5557 I can't view this I keep getting the message you can't view internal articles. Any help and tips greatly appreciated. I currently have Windows 7 installed but I can install XP or any other version of windows which may be deemed suitable for what I am doing. Thanks, Chris.
Hi Folks, I solved this myself and it might be useful for others facing the same problem. I created another bridged connection on the guest OS with an IP on the same subnet as my LAN. I shared my sonic wall VPN connection to the connection I created I entered this command on the MAC (I need to access on network on a 10.1.1.0/24 subnet) sudo route -n add 10.1.1.0/24 10.1.10.100, the intention being that requests to 10.1.1.0/24 would be routed through the connection on the guest OS. You can image my surprise when I could ping one of our servers from the terminal and successfully established an SSH connection. I can now leave Parallels running the the background just for this purpose and will be buying a license right away! Chris.
