Today I worked on a Mac Probook, and I have to say that I am impressed. The more I work on Macs, the more I feel like I’m getting sold on one. They’re awesome…. but that’s a topic for another day.
Client was having an issue getting on the network using his Virtual XP Desktop. He installed and is using the Parallel Desktop made for macs to create a virtual environment and installed MS XP Pro.
Problem was that he was not able to get an IP address to be able to connect to the Exchange server using MS Outlook. The Probook was able to get an IP via the DHCP server, and was able to get on the web and access certain shares.
What in the world would be causing the problem I thought. After determining that indeed it was the Parallel engine, I searched for the devices. And tada!!
Under devices, and network, I found that you can select a network port to use as default. I selected the ethernet port and Boom… I was on.
Simple fix but it took me nearly 30 minutes to figure out. Man, I suck!
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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