Fantasy Grounds and Parallels and port forwarding

[HoratioDrank]

Hi all.

I'm curious if anyone is using Fantasy Grounds on a Mac via Parallels and has some tips for port forwarding.

My router requires that I specify the IP address of the computer for which port forwarding is set up. When I run Fantasy Grounds on my Windows PC, everything is smooth and easy with regards to port forwarding. When I set up the port forwarding from the IP address of my Mac, however, I'm not able to get a successful test from Fantasy Grounds. I'm assuming the issue is that I am running Fantasy Grounds on a VM via Parallels. My router doesn't recognize the VM as being a separate entity connected to it.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

CNYGamer99

[damned]

What IP Address does your parrallels install have? It will most likely have its own IP Address. What does FG think its IP address is?

[HoratioDrank]

The IP address that Fantasy Grounds identifies as my internal IP while running on the VM is the same as the IPv4 Address shown in an "ipconfig /all" run from the VM.

[HoratioDrank]

Okay, I have it figured out now. I had to set up the port forwarding on the Mac, and then set up a port forwarding rule in Parallels to forward 1802 from the Mac to the VM. All is well now.

CNYGamer99

[damned]

Okay, I have it figured out now. I had to set up the port forwarding on the Mac, and then set up a port forwarding rule in Parallels to forward 1802 from the Mac to the VM. All is well now.

CNYGamer99

Well done CNYGamer99

[deifdark]

I had to set up the port forwarding on the Mac, and then set up a port forwarding rule in Parallels to forward 1802 from the Mac to the VM. All is well now.

Hello. How do you do that?
I think I have the same trouble. When I run FG on my Mac thorugh Steam it works fine, the connection is "Success" (I have the port 1802 opens in my router), but when I run FG on a Windows VM via Parallels, the connection is always "In progress". I also think this is the reason why "localhost" doesn´t work on this second instance for let me see the player form.

Thanks

[Trenloe]

...but when I run FG on a Windows VM via Parallels, the connection is always "In progress". I also think this is the reason why "localhost" doesn´t work on this second instance for let me see the player form.
Running a VM in Parallels is essentially a separate computer - with a different IP address. If you have port forwarding setup on your Internet router, you'll need to change it to the IP address of the Windows VM.

If you want to use localhost connection when your GM instance is within Parallels you'll need to launch another instance of FG within the same Parallels session - as that will be running on the "same" computer (albeit virtual).

[daggerfortysix]

Oh jeez. Can somebody walk me through making my FG running in Paralles on my MacBook connect. Everything works perfectly on my MacBook using PureVPN with dedicated IP. Today I installed Paralles and finally got FG installed. Now the test fails. Ugh!

[LordEntrails]

Just guessing as I'm not a Mac person...
Your parallels computer probably has a different internal IP than your Wine computer does. So if you had to port forward, you need to update it to the new computer.

[daggerfortysix]

My port forwarding is done via Pure VPN. I didn't forward anything, it just worked. Hmmmm.

[daggerfortysix]

I am bailing on the Parallels and going back to the Mac instal of Fantasy Grounds. That worked best....

[Myrdin Potter]

You would need to research how Parallels networks out to the connection. The concern would be some sort of NAT being done that needs to have a port forwarded vs. the "raw" MacOS that just sees the pureVPN connection.

[daggerfortysix]

Way too complicated for me...

[Bidmaron]

There is a setting in parallels to share the internet connection with the mac side. That is what you need. You can do it with separate up for Windows side but it is a lot more sophisticated. I am away from computer and cannot tell you the setting

[daggerfortysix]

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