Unable to connect WinXP to Internet under Parallels-8 running under MacOS 10.9.3

I haven't used Parallels (version 8) in a very long time but am now trying to upgrade my virtual copy of WinXP to Win7. I am unable do a clean Win7 install because the license requires that an existing Windows operating system be present to accomplish the upgrade. I tried bringing up IE and Firefox browsers under XP and neither will connect to the outside. I downloaded several MS apps to help with the upgrade by loading them on the Mac then referencing under XP via Parallels. When I installed and ran them under XP some fail saying that they're unable to connect to the internet and try later. Bottom line, I need internet connectivity. Using the command tool ipconfig /all shows that XP has an I/P of 10.37.192.3 while my Mac shows 10.37.192.2 on vnic1. I can successfully ping between the two machines and I can see my Mac filesystems under XP.

After bringing up IE it failed to connect so I ran the diagnostic. It said that I couldn't connect via HTTP (80), HTTPS (443) or FTP (21). Is this a problem at the Mac end or might it be my main router (Verizon FIOS) or is it WinXP? I cannot reach my main router at the default address 192.168.1.1 from WinXP but can from the Mac.

Here are the exact results of my ipconfig /all query under WinXP
ipconfig /all
Windows IP Configuration

Host name . . . . . . . . . . . . . : charliecaroe312
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled . . . . . . : No

Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection 4:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Parallels Ethernet Adapter
Physical address . . . . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-42-F6-7B-58
Dhcp Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.37.192.3
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.37.192.2
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 8.8.8.8

The results (partial) from ifconfig -a on my Mac

vnic0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:08
inet 10.211.55.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.211.55.255
media: autoselect
status: active
vnic1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:09
inet 10.37.192.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.37.192.255
media: autoselect
status: active

Has anyone encountered this before and if so is there a known solution?


Thanks in advance

 

Follow the 'Network Troubleshooting' link in my signature (copy and paste it), additionally, also make sure there is no proxy set in the Internet connection settings on the Windows side (maybe you had set it up but you forgot, or some software set up a proxy that is no longer working).