Networking problems

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AMCMO

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Have Leopard running just fine, can connect to my Windows network, internet etc.

Have installed Parallels and that picked up the Boot Camp partition and set up XP Pro SP2.

All works fine, can see the drive on the Windows VM, Windows VM can see the Mac drive using MacDrive. I can run MS Office 2008 and Entourage connects to our Exchange server

Here's my problem.

If I turn on Shared networking, the XP VM cannot see the network and connot get internet connection. If I switch to bridged, then the XP VM gets the network and internet and the Mac loses connection. I've not made any changes to the settings at all, just the defaults that came with the installation, apart from setting the domain etc in the Mac networking control. Once Bridged is turnd on I need to unistall Parallells to be able to switch back to shared.

In both Shared and Brideged I've not entered anything in the Parallels network setup for the VM
 
rr10:~ robertr$
rr10:~ robertr$ ifconfig -a
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::21d:7dff:fe04:da76%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.1.163 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:1d:7d:04:da:76
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
supported media: 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,flow-control> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control> 1000baseT <full-duplex> 1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control> autoselect
fw0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2030
lladdr 00:0d:de:a3:00:00:1d:7d
media: autoselect <full-duplex> status: inactive
supported media: autoselect <full-duplex>
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:0%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
inet 169.254.8.218 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:00
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect
en2: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:1%en2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
inet 169.254.8.218 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 169.254.255.255
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:01
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect
 
Just one more comment.

I think I would prefer to use Bridge mode, then the XP is available to the network as a separate machine to the Mac.
 
Just noticed one thing in the file. The machine is referred to as RR10. That is the Windows computer name on the network. The Mac name is RR10Mac

Don't know if that's important, would expect so for bridged.
 
in Terminal from Applications/Utilities on Mac OS
sudo killall -HUP pvsnatd
recheck ifconfig again, also make sure that DHCP is enabled for Parallels Interfaces from Parallels Desktop - Preferences - Network
 
Thanks John,

Will that also work If I try Bridged networking as I believe I want the Mac and XP 'machines' to appear onthe network separately.

Cheers
 
No, it is not related to Bridged Ethernet mode, in Bridged Ethernet, other software may block connection, like antivirus or third party firewall
 
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