I followed articles I could find, I ended up with 2 nics installed one bridged and one shared and I am still unable to access the LAN or internet
Hello Kent4, A virtual machine can use three different networking modes to communicate: Bridged, Shared and Host-Only. Please refer http://kb.parallels.com/4948 to learn more about each networking mode also follow steps suggested at http://kb.parallels.com/8978 to resolve the network issue in Windows virtual machine.