Issues connecting to the internet on guest machine Mac OS

[dpn1609]

New to the Forum: I am running a guest machine (Mac) on OSX 10.8.5. The host machine is a Mac running macOS Monterey with 16mb of memory. VMware Fusion pro edition 12.2.5 is operating on the host machine. When I turn on the Connect Network Adaptor is does create allow me to connect to the internet. However, I can not use the network connection for 99% of any of the websites. When using safari on the guest machine nearly every web connection I try states the the network connection is not secure. I don't need to go online with the guest machine, but I DO need it to allow me to connect my Adobe CS6 software to the adobe servers for adobe to recognize that the software is registered. It keeps telling me I'm using a trial version, then attempts to go online to verify the software. The message window from adobe states there is network connection error, or no internet connection found. I'm 100% sure I can access the web since I can reach google, a few news sites and so on (most sites I try will not connect due to the "network connection is not secure" message in Safari. I have tried the Connect Network Adaptor on Autodetect and WiFi. Both of those methods successfully connect to the internet. Is there a way to solve this? The ONLY reason I need to do this (connect to the internet) is to connect to the adobe servers to keep my software running on my guest machine. Thank you.

[ColoradoMarmot · Accepted solution]

If you set it to 'share with my mac' and 'auto' and then reboot the guest it should just work - assuming you installed the tools in the guest OS (sometimes that doesn't happen automatically).

[Technogeezer]

Since you say you can connect to some web sites but are getting an "network connection is not secure", your Fusion TCP/IP networking is working fine. What you appear to be facing is the inability of your old Safari browser to conform to security configurations of today's Internet. Many web sites are upgrading their security and refuse to allow older browsers that use insecure ciphers to connect.

For Adobe, it appears that their activation servers require TLS 1.2 for their secure connections. Safari in macOS 10.8 does not provide that (my research says TLS 1.2 was introduced in Safari in macOS 10.9 Mavericks). For this reason (among many) I'd personally never let an OS that old have access to the Internet.

You might want to look at Adobe community article https://community.adobe.com/t5/download-install-discussions/activation-issue-cs6-on-macos-mojave/m-p...

You may need to do an offline activation - see https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/activation-deactivation-help.html

[dpn1609]

Thank you, I'll try that.

[dpn1609]

Thanks for the speedy reply. I checked those links at adobe at it appears that might be a viable solution. I'll give it a shot. Thx!