When I was running Desktop build 1970, shared networking allowed me to share my VPN connection that I would setup through Mac OS X (using the Contivitiy client from Netlock/Apani). However, when I upgraded to build 3106/3120, I've lost that ability. I can't even try to use the Windows XP client in my guest OS to try to login. Any ideas?
Bump. Any ideas at all? This is really driving me nuts because my work requires me to use Windows IE for certain websites and I can't do that from home now.
How is Windows resolving your work DNS host names? The Mac gets name server from the VPN tool, but Windows does not. Have you tried manually adding the name servers from you office to Window's networking?
Hadn't thought of that but it looks like DNS is working fine within Parallels. When I do an nslookup from the Windows XP cmd shell to a server at work after I'm VPN'ed in through the Mac, I get the IP. Even a ping under Windows works fine. But I can't telnet/ssh to machines, go to webpages, reach my Exchange server, etc, unless I do it from my Mac. Thinking it might be a firewall problem, I disabled the guest OS' Windows firewall (the MacOS firewall is disabled already) but that didn't do anything either. It looks like some ports are being blocked by something. And the odd thing is it used to work before I upgraded Parallels so I can't imagine it's my VPN software.
anandman, If you have time, can you install Ethereal or some other network sniffer in Windows, try telnet connection and look at the dump? Are there SYN replies? RST replies?
I installed Ethereal and see what look like three SYN requests from my VM to the destination machine. I did a telnet [machinename] 80 and it starts out with a DNS resolve (for the first time) and then sends "1185 > http [SYN] Seq=0 Len=0 MSS=1460" three times before the telnet session dies with "Could not open connection to the host, on port 80: Connect failed". When I try to telnet to google.com 80, I get "ACK", "SYN, ACK", "FIN, ACK" packets back and forth. I don't see any RST packets in either case. I would copy the information here but I can't figure out how to select a text version. BTW, this is now after upgrading to build 3170 RC3. No apparent difference.
Dear Anandman Good moring to you and sorry to hear about your network issue. I had almost same issues when i upgrade from 1970 to my current 3106/3120 and now I'm using 3106... One thing I have notice is Parallels virtual nic names are changed to en2 and en3 in 3xxx beta versions... it took me least 3 to 4 uninstall and reinstall to figure that one out... so here is what I did.. used the 3106 dmg file to uninstall the 1970 and delete the VM (not sure if you could do this for your VM). install 3106 and check sys. pref and make sure en2 and en3 are installed and other 1970 nic names are gone...reboot the MAC (i think this helps a lot) and after verifying en2 and en3 have green light next to it... installed WinVM using Typical (some reason, express did not work well there) and shared network worked for me fine... Good luck.. JL
I only have en2 (Parallels Host-Guest) and en3 (Parallels NAT) and both have green lights next to them in Network Preferences so I don't think this is the same issue. Normal networking works fine for me. It's just VPN that I'm having a problem with.
Anand, In what order are you starting your VPN connection and Parallels VM? Can you please try the opposite order? Would it make any difference?
i found that sometimes i have to start internet sharing on the mac after the VM is running (before the VPN is running) to get cisco's vpn client to work with shared networking when connected over wireless.
Anand, can you please try one more thing: after establishing VPN connection, open Mac Terminal and issue sudo killall -HUP pvsnatd
