I'm at the airport, and trying to get on T-mobile's hotspot. On the Mac side, when I launch Safari, it goes right to the T-mobile login page. On the Parallels side, I have networking set to Bridged, Airport. When I launch Internet Explorer, nothing happens. It just times out. I checks, and my Windows XP did get an IP address, and it's close to the IP address that the Mac got (which I would expect), and even knows that the domain is t-mobile. I have tried everything i can think of, but cannot get on the network at all through Windows. (It works fine when I'm at home, over my own wireless). I tried pinging the IP address of the T-mobile login page... doesn't work. I tried pinging the router that I was assigned to... doesn't work. I next tried to logon with my T-mobile account on the Mac side, and now I'm online for real and can surf the web... but on the Windows side... nothing still. Any ideas? .... I do want to say that I tried something based on another post. After logging into T-mobile on the Mac side, I went to my Sharing prefs and shared my Airport connection over Ethernet. Then I turned off Parallels and reset the Bridged networking to Ethernet. I got an error that Ethernet wasn't connected when I started the VM (because I don't have anything actually plugged in), but when everything finished booting, I had received an IP address from my Mac that was sharing! I couldn't do any DNS resolutions, for some strange reason, so I manually entered the same DNS server that the Mac was using into my TCP/IP settings on Windows, and now I'm online on Windows. A couple of take aways from this weird experience: - if possible, don't report that the network cable isn't connected, if it's able to use the shared settings from the Mac - it would be great if I could just share my Internet connection to the Network Interface (vi2) that is used for host-only networking. But this doesn't show up as an option. - for some reason the DNS resolutions aren't working in the default configuration
