Is there a way to connect to office VPN using parallels (windows) but surf on host Mac OS X?

Raghav · Apr 24, 2015

My office VPN called Juniper does not gets installed on Mac OS X. I am using Parallels to run guest Windows on my macbook pro with OS X Yosemite. I don't know what I am asking, and if it is even logical or not, but here is my question:

Is there a way that I can share my guest operating system's VPN connection with host operating system? What I mean is, that I connect to my office VPN using my guest Parallels Windows OS and that can be shared with my host macbook Mac OS X?

By doing this what I want to achieve is, that I want to just open Windows using Parallels and then connect to my VPN and then minimize it and come back to OS X and then surf all my internet websites on Safari or Chrome (on Mac and not W indows).

Is this possible? Could anybody guide me on how to do this if its possible?

Dhruba@Parallels · Apr 24, 2015

Hello Raghav,
Please try changing the Network setting from Shared Network to Bridge Mode and check how it works.
Refer to this article for more information, http://kb.parallels.com/4948

Raghav · Apr 25, 2015

Dhruba@Parallels said:
Hello Raghav,
Please try changing the Network setting from Shared Network to Bridge Mode and check how it works.
Refer to this article for more information, http://kb.parallels.com/4948

Thanks,
Dhruba

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Thanks for your response Dhruba, but it didn't help me. I set up the bridged connection and then connected to my office's VPN using guest OS (windows). I was able to surf intranet websites inside windows but was not able to do it from Mac OS X.

Any other help would be much appreciated.

Padman · Apr 25, 2015

Hi Raghav,
It is not possible to share the Windows VPN network with the host Mac OS X Virtual Machine.
You can also refer to knowledge base article: http://kb.parallels.com/en/5557

Thanks,
Padman

Raghav · Apr 25, 2015

Padman@Parallels said:
Hi Raghav,
It is not possible to share the Windows VPN network with the host Mac OS X Virtual Machine.
You can also refer to knowledge base article: http://kb.parallels.com/en/5557

Thanks,
Padman

Thanks for the response Padman. The article is helpful in case of hardware device but difficult to setup with virtual private networks.