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  • Posted in: Fusion

    Thanks Paul. That pretty much confirms my suspicion. It's the MAC address change triggering things in my case. I can cause the prompt to appear just by cycling the MAC address on my home network. I normally have two connections to it, one wired and one ...

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    Agreed 100%! Happy wife = happy life :) Take care kind sir!

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    I suspect that the switch to bridged allowed the name resolution to work. NAT networking doesn't propagate IP service autodiscovery services (e.g. Bonjour) from the NAT network to the hoat Mac's network. I also suspect that if you connected to the ...

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    Switching to bridged fixed it :) The calm sound of your voice and troubleshooting steps scared it into working again ;) Thank you again sir!

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    Broadcom hasn't documented how it determines that a VM is running on a different system. The suspicions are that it's either the IP address or the MAC address of the Mac host. Are you connecting via wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi? on those foreign networks? ...

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