Hi all, I need some help with a networking setup, as I've tried all permutations and can't find a solution... I work from a home office, where I have two networks set up: 1) a wireless network driven by a wireless ADSL router, set to dole out IP addresses in the range 192.168.0.x, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. The router (which is the gateway / DNS / DHCP) has an IP of 192.168.0.1. I've reserved IP addresses for all my known MAC addresses on the router, so computers get the same IP each time they connect. 2) a local ethernet network, with no DHCP server, and manually assigned IP addresses in the range 192.168.1.x, subnet 255.255.255.0. This network is used to network together two macs in my office, purely for speedy file transfer, as they are too far away from the ADSL router to plug them in to its Ethernet ports. I have two key machines I use in the home office: A) a Mac Pro, with a reserved wireless IP of 192.168.0.110 assigned by DHCP by the router on network 1, and a manually-set Ethernet IP of 192.168.1.110 on network 2 B) a MacBook Pro, with a reserved wireless IP of 192.168.0.106 assigned by DHCP by the router on network 1, and a manually-set Ethernet IP of 192.168.1.106 on network 2. Machine B is my main web server for web site development, and runs Apache and PHP. I browse to it at http://192.168.0.106/ from other local machines to view sites in development. Both machines use the wireless network for their external internet access, and use the ethernet network just for file transfer. I have a copy of Parallels (build 1970) on the MacBook Pro, which I use for testing web sites in a PC environment during development. I have XP Pro SP2 installed on a Parallels virtual machine, set to use Bridged Ethernet networking on "en1: Airport/Wireless Adapter". XP on the virtual machine is using DHCP to get a reserved IP address of 192.168.0.108 from the wireless router (subnet mask 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.0.1). This all works perfectly when I'm on the home network. Parallels on the MacBook Pro can browse the web server on the Mac OS X host by accessing http://192.168.0.106/ and I can view the web sites in IE6 in the virtual machine. Everything is rosy. The problem comes when I am away from my home network, and I am out on site with a client. I still want to be able to browse the MacBook Pro's web server from within XP on Parallels, even when my home wireless network is not present. To date, I haven't been able to find a networking setup which works in all scenarios. I haven't even been able to get it to work in the off-site scenario alone. What should I do? Any help much appreciated, and apologies for the epic description! Dave.
