DHCP not working

[chrisfcm]

I've been running a windows 2000 guest on an XP host - Vbox v 1.3.8 and everthing was working great until logging in this morning.

I can't get to the internet from guest (local network works fine). When I manually enter my DNS addreses into the adapter properties I can get out. But it should be grabbing them from the router and up until this morning it had been.

Any ideas on what I can check/change to get DHCP to work fully?

Thanks.

[chrisfcm]

Still looking for an answer on this. I'm running this on a laptop and would like to be able to share folders with the host any time I jump from place to place and pick up different IP information.

Any thoughts?

I'm not able to get the shared folders to work either, maybe that's what I need to do?

[depmed]

chrisfcm,

I was having this same problem with DHCP in XP--occurred out of nowhere (just today, actually) and has brought much annoyance.

I'm not absolutely sure why/if this worked, but I shut the VM down, went to settings through the UI, and generated a new MAC address for the adapter.

Upon starting the machine back up and logging in, I'm now flying right along with an auto-assigned DHCP address of 10.0.2.15 and working Internet access

Hope this helps

[rammy121]

duh...it was the mac address...at least for me...simple refresh (remember to press the advanced button). i spent hours on this...cheers!!