Share Parallels' Windows XP connection with OS X

Apr 13, '07 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

My hotel room only has a modem with Windows drivers, so I got it running under Parallels Desktop Windows XP. However, I wanted to check my email with Apple Mail, so I found this solution:

  1. Set Parallels Desktop' Network Options to "Host-only network"
  2. Start Windows and run the XP Network Setup Wizard
  3. Share Your direct Connection
  4. Open OS X's Network System Preferences panel, and refresh your automatic DHCP address from your local built-in Ethernet. If your Ethernet takes a long time to refresh, and ends up with a random adress like 160.145.5.25 or so, check the Windows network again, and enable the Netbios function for DHCP. It should then get an Adress like 192.168.0.2 or 10.0.0.2.
It runs pretty well, too -- congratulations to Parallels for making the Windows drivers work directly ... wow!

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