I was having network trouble, called my ISP (Rogers high speed cable), seems they were having "DNS problems". Anyway, during the diagnosis they "reset my modem" or something, and I ended up getting new IP address and/or DNS. Now everything is fixed. However, I'm running Windows in Parallels for the first time since and there is no network connectivity in Windows. Is there something I need to "reset" or reconfigure so Parallels will become aware of any changes? Please help me fix this. I'm very stuck. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks, Stephen
Ok, looks like I have network connectivity back when in Windows. I realized that when diagnosing the issue with my ISP, I disconnected my wireless router and connected my iMac directly to the cable modem. Now that I have the wireless router plugged into the cable modem and the iMac plugged into the router, everything is back to normal. But this leads me to another question -- if I didn't have the wireless router at all, would I be able to have network access from within the Windows session? Stephen
Your ISP probably only gives out a single IP address per cable modem. You could get connectivity by switching your VM to shared networking. But as others have stated elsewhere, having a router (with a firewall) in place is pretty much a necessity in this modern world where an unprotected Windows PC is bound to be infected within a half hour.
