Network Settings/Parallels

snoopy1239

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Network Settings/Parallels

« on: September 23, 2007, 08:55:36 PM »

I'm a complete novice, so please bear with me, but I'm having trouble connecting to the Internet via Windows after an IT man at the Broadway reconfigured my network settings as we tired to connect to the Casino's router.

I had a look at my network settings via system preferences and noticed that my IP for Parallels Host Guest and Parallels NAT read 0.0.0.0 and my configure IPv4 was set to manual. I have a submask number, everything else is blank. I tried dropping both settings down to 'Using DHCP', which gave me an IP address, but still didn't enable me access.

My connection in Mac OS is fine, as is my mobile data card connection, it's jut via windows/parallels that I can't get on. I can load up parallels and windows, but when I open my browser, I get nothing, just that annoying error page. If I look at my network connection on windows when my IPv4 is on 'Using DHCP', it says I'm connected, so I'm a tad confused.

Is there a simple solution? Can anyone shed any light at all, it's annoying because I want to play poker.


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Re: Network Settings/Parallels

« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2007, 09:06:51 PM »

What IP address do you get?


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Re: Network Settings/Parallels

« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2007, 09:27:52 PM »

Quote from: Bongo on September 23, 2007, 09:06:51 PM

What IP address do you get?

It gives me 4 'Configure IPv4' options:

(1) Manually
(2) Using DCHP with manual address
(3) Using DCHP
(4) Using BootP

It was on manual when I got home, and the ip address said 0.0.0.0

I tried changing it to DCHP to see what happened, and that gave me an address of 10.37.129.2 on Parallels Host-Guest and 10.211.55.2 on Parallels NAT.

My network settings actually say that both are these are currently active, but when I boot up windows and open my browser, I get the dreaded error page.

ps. I have no idea what any of the above means. :-P


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Re: Network Settings/Parallels

« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2007, 10:12:54 AM »

if you go to Start, Run, then type cmd.exe in the box and click ok, you will see a black screen.

type the following :

ping 4.2.2.2 (let me know what it says)

then type

Ipconfig /all

this will list all your cards and ip information, on the card you are using what does it say next to dns server?


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Re: Network Settings/Parallels

« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2007, 01:56:48 AM »

Quote from: snoopy1239 on September 23, 2007, 08:55:36 PM

Does your MAC have dual boot? Can you boot into windows and see if it auto detects all the correct settings instead of emulating windows with parallel?

Have you run the network setup wizzard? (It might help)

What sort of connection are you actually conecting to? Is it broadband? Is is ADSL or cable? Do you have a router? You likely need to set your gateway to the IP address of your router. But it should be getting all this from DHCP, or 'Obtain an IP address automatically' and 'Obtain a DNS server address automatically' as windows usually calls it.