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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / November 2005Unable to connect to internet from VPC 7
I am running VPC 7 Windows XP on a Powerbook 10.3.9. I have a wireless connection to an airport base station, through a cable modem. My Mac connects fine to the internet, but VPC cannot. I am using shared networking. What are the results of your ping tests? Ping request could not find hot microsoft.com Keep in mind that you must still have your network setup in VPC. I have mine setup to pull an IP address automaticlly from my DHCP server (part of my router/firewall). One note to this, if you have your mac directly attached to the Cable Modem then the cable modem obviously would only allow the one ip address (i.e., your mac.). I also do not recommend direct connect for security reasons. You should always put a router/firewall between your machine and your cable modem as most of the time, you cant be sure that your ISP is really protecting you from intruders. (It also provides a second line of defense if they are). I have had absolutely no issues once I set up the network in VPC so my suggestion would be to go to that point first. Cheers --billm-- www.callapple.org I am having about the same problem. iBook G4, 768M RAM, OS 10.3.9, VPC 7.0.2. I have followed what VPC Help suggests and checked the "Obtain IP address automatically" box in the Network Connections Control Panel for a Local Area Network connection, and have VPC in Shared Networking Mode. Windows shows this LAN connection seemingly fine at a steady 10.0 MBPS, but Internet Explorer can't connect to anything at all. I suspect I need to do some more work somewhere in the maze of Windows sub-programs? >Ping request could not find hot microsoft.com You have a DNS problem. Go to the Control Panel and open Network Connections. Double-click on Local Area Network and then click on Properties. Double-click on Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Select 'Use the following DNS server addresses and put 4.2.2.2 in the preferred DNS server box. Leave the alternate blank. 4.2.2.2 is the public DNS server for yahoo.com.....that 'should' work for you. Excellent! That did the trick. Thank you so much!! You're quite welcome yes, that worked for me too. this was driving me nuts, I had been able to connect just fine about six months ago but hadn't needed connectivity on the Windows side since then. THANK YOU! |
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