Windows2000 TCP/IP connections using VirtualPC 6.x for Mac OS X

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:53:11 +1000

Hi William,

I thought after all this time, I should share my news...

Yesterday I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.3.5 and loaded all the necessary
software updates only to find that both my Virtual PC 5.01 and 6.1 ran
incredibly slow on a Dual processor 1Ghz PowerPC G4 1.5 Gb RAM for no
apparent reason. I retro-installed Mac OS X 10.2 and Virtual PC 5.01 ran
fine. I re-installed Mac OS X 10.3.5 and the same thing happened regarding
the speed of the Virtual PC application. A day later it is fine.

The problem of difficulties with the network access under Virtual PC 6.1 was
resolved by ensuring the additional following step:

Selecting the 'Built-in-Ehternet' option for the 'Virtual Switch' parameter
situated within the 'Virtual PC' + 'Preferences...' menu structure.

I'm very happy about all that (even if it took me a year to get around to
it) as I didn't fancy the prospect of being without my Windows 2000
Professional environment for long and am looking forward to the next release
of Virtual PC 7.x coming out in October 2004.

Thanks again for your willingness to assist.

regards

- dolf

From: "William M. Smith" <mecklists@REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com>
Message-ID: <BB6B7334.14A04%mecklists@REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.macintosh

On 8/21/03 10:56 PM, "Dolf Boek" <telos@bigpond.com> wrote:

Hi Dolf!

My responses are inline with yours.

> Firstly I couldn't find a relevant newsgroup to post this question. My
> apologies if this isn't the right place.

Microsoft does offer a microsot.public.mac.virtualpc newsgroup. You may need
to refresh your newsgroup list to see it because it's less than one month
old. I've found it to be very active and helpful.
 
> Within Virtual PC 5.01 I have 'Shared Networking using BSD sockets'
> selected and within Windows 2000 environment I have default:
>
> - Client for Microsoft Networks
> - File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
> - Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
>
> Within the 'advanced' DNS options I have my broadband/ADSL ISP's
> Dynamic Name Server (DNS) added as an entry within the option
> 'Append these DNS suffixes (in order):'

If you're using Shared Network, then your Windows virtual PC should use the
information as you have it on your Mac. You shouldn't need to configure
anything specific on the Windows side.

You mention that you have your ISP's DNS server, which should be an IP
address such as 192.168.0.1 (for demo purposes only) entered as DNS suffix.
Only names should go here. Let's assume your Windows PC name is "DOLF". By
having "Append these DNS suffixes" selected, your full domain name is
dolf.192.168.0.1, which makes no sense.

Try removing the DNS entry and unchecking the "Append these DNS suffixes"
and test your connection. If you need a DNS suffix, then you'd use your
ISP's name such as "bigpond.net.au". This would make your PC's full domain
name into dolf.bigpond.net.au.

Hope this helps! bill

-- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)

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