Hi all, I m having difficulties connecting to the Internet from my Virtual PC. The host PC is WinXP and I have Win 3k installed in the virtual PC. I have a wireless connection. This is what I have done so far. 1 on the console of the virtual PC I choose the shared Networking (NAT) opti on 2. On the host PC Support for Virtual Machine Service is enabled. And the co nnection is shared. 3. When I check the TCP/IP info on the virtual PC. I have the following conf iguration IP Add: 192.168.131.35 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Default gw: 192.168.131.254 DNS Server: 192.168.1.1 I cannot connect to the internet. Any help will be highly appreciated

• Shared networking (NAT). Shared networking is helpful when using dial-up Internet services. Virtual PC allows guest operating systems to get an IP address dynamically, as Figure 5 shows, without redialing the ISP. Several virtual machines share a single external IP address for accessing the outside network, which Virtual PC accomplishes by using integrated Network Address Translation (NAT) with a DHCP server. from http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/f/b/cfb100a7-463d-4b86-ad62-064397178b4f/Virtual_PC_Technical_Overview.doc That is about the best source and it is just about useless. So. I'd go back to basics. Can you ping or use shared folders? Use the virtual machine's event viewer to look for clues. Use pathping, traceroute ?? Check for dns issues by using an IP address? You might try a static ip in this range to test also. IP address range: 192.168.131.175 - 192.168.131.200 Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.131.254