I've read all posts on connecting the a PC VM to an active T-Mobile Hot Spot account and can't make it work. Can someone list step by step instructions including what needs to be done on the Mac side, in the VM set-up and on the XP side? Thanks d-
Instructoins on gaining Windows Access at hotspot? Hello all, I'm a new user in the Mac world and am trying Windows VM on my MacBook. While I can connect to my home wireless network, I cannot at a hotspot. Any advise and procedures for a newbie like me on how to do this would be much appreciated. Thanks, Tom
Many hotspots will not allow two connections to one machine, so you need to set up host only networking, and share your wireless network connection to the Parallels NIC. This way, OSX gets the connection with the hotspot, and shares it internally with the guest OS. OSX effectively acts as a proxy. There have been many posts on this topic, and there are instructions in the manual.
Using Windows Outlooks Express Thank you Joem for the help. It seems to work fine now when I attempt to go online in the Windows environment. One other question now: Is there a way to keep the Mac firewall up and still have access to Outlook Express? Enabling host only networking allows me to get on online within Windows at various hotspots but to access Outlook Express I still have to take down the Mac firewall. I also have Personal Web Sharing set to "on." Any advise would be much appreciated. Thank you
I don't use Outlook Express due to its apparently well deserved reputation as the world's finest virus delivery vehicle, but if you can find out which ports it needs (maybe someone here knows), you can punch holes for those ports in the firewall, using the GUI or with finer control from terminal (man ipfw for capabilities and instructions for geeks). You can turn on firewall logging from the GUI (System Preferences, sharing, firewall, advanced, to find out what it's trying to do, but that may take a couple of iterations since it may attempt one port and die, and when you open that port, it may need another one -- I really don't use it.
