XP/Pro cannot see network after Leopard 10.5.8

Having the same issue

I've just fired up Parallels 3.0 (Build 5636) for the first time in a couple of months and found the same issue. I cannot find any way to get the network to work from within Parallels. I have recently upgraded to Mac OSX 10.5.8 - has been working fine for a year or two before this.
 
Please click Start->Run and execute cmd.exe
type in it "ipconfig /all" (without quotes) and post here the screenshot with output
 
Ipconfig results

Here's the ipconfig results with Shared networking enabled:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\mac>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : macxp
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Parallels Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-42-EC-19-55
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.71.79
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

C:\Documents and Settings\mac>
 
I'm unsure on what is really going in Parallels 3.0 (know little).. May be repair of permissions will help... but as a quick try I can suggest

Please start /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and execute the following commands (without quotes):
1) "ps aux | grep pvsnatd", post here an output
2) "ifconfig -al" (post here the output)
3) "ls /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/pvsnat*" (output)

and as a main thing that should help
4) "sudo /Library/StartupItems/Parallels/pvsnatd" and restart the VM
 
I seem to have resolved it

I ran the requested commands and started pasting all the outputs here but then seem to have resolved the problem as follows:

Firstly /Library/StartupItems/Parallels/pvsnatd was already running and there were no crash outputs. So I shutdown XP and quit Parallels, killed pvsnatd and restarted it with sudo /Library/StartupItems/Parallels/pvsnatd

I then restarted Parallels and checked the network configuration from the initial window. For some reason it was set to Bridged ethernet (I don't recall ever changing this) so I set it to Shared networking and then started up the VM/XP and now it can connect to the network OK.

I suggest HowardN checks this too.

Thanks for your help Elric.
 
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