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

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by Raghav, Apr 24, 2015.

  1. Raghav

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    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?
     
  2. Dhruba@Parallels

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    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
     
    Last edited: May 8, 2015
  3. Raghav

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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.
     
  4. Padman

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    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
     
  5. Raghav

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

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